Eiffel Broadcaster

This Jenkins plugin sends Eiffel events to a Message Queue. For now, only RabbitMQ is supported. The plugin can be extended with more events and or more data but the required data is there. A detailed list of event representations can be found in the table below.

Read more about the Eiffel protocol at https://eiffel-community.github.io/. The plugin and its features were presented at the 2021 Eiffel Summit; the presentation slides and a video are available.

Jenkins events represented in Eiffel

A number of Jenkins events automatically result in Eiffel events. Additionally, builds have various options of emitting events of their own.

The plugin conforms to the Paris edition of the Eiffel protocol for the events it emits. Users of the provided sendEiffelEvent pipeline step may choose to emit events from any Eiffel edition up to and including the Arica edition. See the documentation of each event for details of the corresponding event version used.

Accessing emitted Eiffel events in builds

If a build needs to emit Eiffel events of its own they should probably have a CONTEXT or CAUSE link to the build's EiffelActivityTriggeredEvent. The plugins injects the following environment variables with the contents of the previously sent events:

• EIFFEL_ACTIVITY_TRIGGERED: The build's EiffelActivityTriggeredEvent event.
• EIFFEL_ACTIVITY_STARTED: The build's EiffelActivityStartedEvent event.

Category configuration

The contents of the data.categories member in EiffelActivityTriggeredEvent is configurable in two ways:

• A global plugin setting.
• A setting in each job, configured via the UI or the eiffelActivity pipeline property:

properties([
    eiffelActivity(categories: ['jenkins', 'maven'])
])

Categories can e.g. be used to distinguish Eiffel activities that represent Jenkins builds from other kinds of activities, or distinguish between different kinds of Jenkins builds.

Globally configured categories will be merged with the categories specified in each job. Duplicate entries will be eliminated.

Pipeline steps

createPackageURL

The createPackageURL pipeline step accepts individual components of a Package URL and returns a properly formatted and quoted string that e.g. can be used when piecing together an EiffelArtifactedCreatedEvent. See the Package URL specification for details on what the components mean.

Example:

def purl = createPackageURL type: 'generic', namespace: 'name/space',
    name: 'pkgname', version: '1.0', subpath: 'some/path', qualifiers: [a: 'b']
echo "Here's the resulting purl: ${purl}"

publishEiffelArtifacts

The publishEiffelArtifacts pipeline step sends an EiffelArtifactPublishedEvent for each EiffelArtifactCreatedEvent that has been recorded in the build using a sendEiffelEvent step with the publishArtifact argument enabled and for each artifact recorded in the specified JSON files in the workspace.

This requires that each EiffelArtifactCreatedEvent has at least one file defined in its data.fileInformation array and that each relative file path in data.fileInformation.name matches a Jenkins artifact in the build. Because of the latter requirement it's normally used after an archiveArtifacts step.

The EiffelArtifactPublishedEvent will have two links; one ARTIFACT link to the EiffelArtifactCreatedEvent and one CONTEXT link to the parent build's EiffelActivityTriggeredEvent.

Example of publishing artifacts connected to the build:

def event = [
    'meta': [
        'type': 'EiffelArtifactCreatedEvent',
        'version': '3.0.0',
    ],
    'data': [
        'identity': 'pkg:generic/myprogram@1.0',
        'fileInformation': [
            [
                'name': 'myprogram-1.0.tar.gz',
            ],
        ],
    ],
]
sendEiffelEvent event: event, publishArtifact: true

archiveArtifacts artifacts: 'myprogram-1.0.tar.gz'
publishEiffelArtifacts()

Example of publishing artifacts from a file:

def event = [
    'meta': [
        'type': 'EiffelArtifactCreatedEvent',
        'version': '3.0.0',
    ],
    'data': [
        'identity': 'pkg:generic/myprogram@1.0',
        'fileInformation': [
            [
                'name': 'myprogram-1.0.tar.gz',
            ],
        ],
    ],
]
writeJSON file: 'events.json', json: event

archiveArtifacts artifacts: 'myprogram-1.0.tar.gz'
publishEiffelArtifacts artifactEventFiles: '*.json'

sendEiffelEvent

The sendEiffelEvent pipeline step sends an Eiffel event from that's built in the Groovy code or read into a Groovy map from another location. It accepts the following parameters:

Example:

def event = [
    "meta": [
        "type": "EiffelCompositionDefinedEvent",
        "version": "3.0.0",
    ],
    "data": [
        "name": "my-composition",
    ],
]
def sent = sendEiffelEvent event: event
echo "This event was sent: ${sent}"

// Make the activity link a CAUSE link
sendEiffelEvent event: event, activityLinkType: "CAUSE"

// Skip the activity link altogether
sendEiffelEvent event: event, linkToActivity: false

This step returns immediately as soon as the event has been validated and put in the internal outbound queue. The actual delivery of the event to the broker might not have happened at the time of the return. The validation supports all events and event versions up to and including the Arica edition.

API

The plugin will do its best to populate the emitted EiffelActivityTriggeredEvent with information taken from the causes of the build, but in many cases you'll want to inject additional Eiffel links that the plugin can't figure out on its own. This can be done with the $JOB_URL/eiffel/build API endpoint which works nearly identially to the standard $JOB_URL/build endpoint except that it requires an additional eiffellinks form parameter that contains the Eiffel links to include in the EiffelActivityTriggeredEvent. eiffellinks follows the same schema as the links value in Eiffel events. Example (payload lacking URL encoding to improve readability):

POST $JOB_URL/eiffel/build
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

json={"eiffellinks": [{"target": "662b3813-bef4-4588-bf75-ffaead24a6d5", "type": "CAUSE"}], "parameter": [{"name": "PARAM_NAME", "value": "param value"}]}

The eiffellinks key is mandatory for this endpoint but parameter is optional. If the latter is omitted and the job is parameterized the default values for all parameters will be used.

If at least one CAUSE link is included in eiffellinks, an EIFFEL_EVENT trigger will be included in the EiffelActivityTriggeredEvent.

How to build and install this plugin from source

In the EiffelBroadcaster root folder, use maven to compile.

$ mvn compile

In the EiffelBroadcaster root folder, use maven to build the .hpi file.

$ mvn hpi:hpi

2. In the Jenkins web interface go to: Manage Jenkins -> Plugin Manager -> Advanced
3. At "Upload Plugin", Browse to the .hpi file located in the EiffelBroadcaster/target directory and press "Upload"

The plugin should install without the need to reboot Jenkins.

Maintainers

• Isac Holm <isac.holm@axis.com>
• Magnus Bäck <magnus.back@axis.com>

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