Remotely triggering jobs through the Jenkins API

Jenkins has a remote that allows you to enable, disable, run, and delete jobs; it also lets you change the configuration. The API is increasing with each Jenkins version. To get the most up-to-date details, you will need to review http://yourhost/job/Name_of_Job/api/. Where yourhost is the location of your Jenkins server, Name_of_Job is the name of a job that exists on your server.

This recipe details how you can trigger builds remotely by using security tokens. This will allow you to run other jobs from within Maven.

Getting ready

This recipe expects Jenkins security to be turned on so that you can log in as a user. It also assumes you a modern version of wget (http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/) installed.

How to do it...

1. Create a Freestyle project with the project name ch3.RunMe.
2. Check This Build is parameterized, select String Parameter, and add the following details:
   1. Name: myvariable
   2. DefaultValue: Default
   3. Description: This is my example variable...