Create jobs and execute them in jenkins using REST

Question

I am trying to create a WCF REST client that will communicate to Jenkins and create a job from an XML file and then build the job. My understanding is that you can do that with

Answer 1

If you want to create a job into a view given the view exists.

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/xml" -d @build.xml "http://jenkins_host/view/viewName/createItem?name=itemName"

the build.xml filetemplate could be found in the root directory of a job's workspace

if you want to create a view:

curl  -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/xml"  -d @view.xml "http://jenkins_host/createView?name=viewName"

the content of the file view.xml could be:

    viewName
    false
    false
    
    
        
    
    
    
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

and to check if a view exists:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/xml" "http://jenkins_host/checkViewName?value=viewName"

to check if a job exists:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/xml" "http://jenkins_host/checkJobName?value=jobName"