Groovy Postbuild in Jenkins, parsing the log for strings and counting them

Question

I am new to Groovy and am trying to set up a postbuild in Jenkins that allows me to count strings and determine if the build succeeded by how many the count returns at the e

Answer 1

You have statements directly inside your class, without being in a method, which is not allowed in Java/Groovy. Since this is Groovy, you can run this as a script without the class at all, or put the offending code (the if statement) inside a method and call the method.

Answer 2

Perhaps you're missing a closing }

def JobCount = list.count {it.startsWith("====") && it.contains("COMPLETE")}

Answer 3

manager.build.logFile.text returns the whole file text as String.

What you need is readLines():

def list = manager.build.logFile.readLines()
def JobCount = list.count {it.startsWith("====") && it.contains("COMPLETE")}

and of course as mentioned below, the Jenkins Groovy Postbuild plugin runs Groovy scripts, so you will have get rid of the enclosing class declaration (Main)