Perforce triggered build

Perforce can trigger Jenkins to build based on an event, such as a submitted change. To enable builds to be triggered by Perforce, select Perforce triggered build in the Freestyle job or Pipeline page. A triggered build also requires an administrator to add a Perforce trigger to the Helix Core Server. For information about adding a trigger, see Using triggers to customize behavior in Helix Core Server Administrator Guide.

The trigger needs to POST a JSON payload to the Jenkins end-point JENKINS_URL/p4/change/. The JSON payload must contain the p4port string that matches the P4Port field specified in the Perforce Credential (please note that the field change is not currently used, it has been added for future compatibility).

For example:

  • A simple change-commit or graph-push-complete trigger can use curl:

    • #!/bin/bash
CHANGE=$1

P4PORT=perforce:1666
JUSER=admin
JPASS=pass
JSERVER=http://localhost:8080

curl --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     --request POST \
     --silent \
     --user $JUSER:$JPASS \
     --data payload="{change:$CHANGE,p4port:\"$P4PORT\"}" \
     $JSERVER/p4/change

  • It must have an entry in p4 triggers for changes on //depot/...:

    • jenkins change-commit //depot/... "/p4/common/bin/triggers/jdepot.sh %change%"

  • or for Graph content:

    • helix4git graph-push-complete //repos/... "/p4/common/bin/triggers/jgraph.sh %depotName% %repoName% %pusher%"

Server authentication

Deprecated as of 1.8.10 (CRUMB support is embedded)

If your Jenkins server needs authentication you will also need to provide a security CRUMB. The following is an example of how you can get this and use it to trigger a job:

#!/bin/bash
CHANGE=$1

P4PORT=perforce:1666
JUSER=admin
JPASS=pass
JSERVER=http://localhost:8080

# Get CRUMB
CRUMB=$(curl --silent --user $JUSER:$JPASS $JSERVER/crumbIssuer/api/xml?xpath=concat\(//crumbRequestField,%22":"%22,//crumb\))

# Trigger builds across all triggered jobs (where relevant)
curl --header "$CRUMB" \
     --request POST \
     --silent \
     --user $JUSER:$JPASS \
     --data payload="{change:$CHANGE,p4port:\"$P4PORT\"}" \
     $JSERVER/p4/change