Description Steffen Pingel 2010-10-20 00:11:59 EDT

The /job/action and /job/parameter tags of the XML output of a Hudson job have a partial description of required build parameters:

<parameterDefinition>
  <defaultParameterValue>
    <value>INFO</value>
  </defaultParameterValue>
  <description/>
  <name>BUCKMINSTER_LOGLEVEL</name>
  <choice>INFO</choice>
  <choice>WARNING</choice>
  <choice>ERROR</choice>
  <choice>DEBUG</choice>
</parameterDefinition>

The only two things that are missing are the parameter types and for Run Parameter the project name. It seems that it would be straight forward to include that.

A full description of parameters is only availalable from the config.xml but that may not be readable by all users and requires a separate request, e.g. https://build.eclipse.org/hudson/job/emf-cdo-integration/config.xml :

<parameterDefinitions>
  <hudson.model.ChoiceParameterDefinition>
    <name>BUCKMINSTER_LOGLEVEL</name>
    <description/>
    <choices class="java.util.Arrays$ArrayList">
      <a class="string-array">
        <string>INFO</string>
        <string>WARNING</string>
        <string>ERROR</string>
        <string>DEBUG</string>
      </a>
    </choices>
  </hudson.model.ChoiceParameterDefinition>
  <hudson.model.RunParameterDefinition>
    <name>Run Parameter</name>
    <description>Run Parameter Description.</description>
    <projectName>test-ant</projectName>
  </hudson.model.RunParameterDefinition>
</parameterDefinitions>