Set the pipeline name and description from Jenkinsfile

Question

I am trying to do a poc of jenkins pipeline as code. I am using the Github organization folder plugin to scan Github orgs and create jobs per branch. Is there a way to explicitly define the names for the pipeline jobs that get from Jenkinsfile? I also want to add some descriptions for the jobs.

Answer 1

You need to use currentBuild like below. The node part is important

node {
    currentBuild.displayName = "$yournamevariable-$another"
    currentBuild.description = "$yourdescriptionvariable-$another"
}

Edit: Above one renames build where as Original question is about renaming jobs. Following script in pipeline will do that(this requires appropriate permissions)

item = Jenkins.instance.getItemByFullName("originalJobName")
item.setDescription("This description was changed by script")
item.save()
item.renameTo("newJobName")