On our Jenkins instance with almost a hundred folders, JJB update
stalls for quite a while because it calls get_all_jobs. When invoked
locally at the Jenkins master, it's a matter of seconds, on a fast
broadband link and VPN, it's 2 minutes, and on a train it's easily 10
minutes.
But there's trick!
curl \
--show-error --silent --fail \
--user : --negotiate \
--get \
--data-urlencode \
tree=jobs\[url\,name\,jobs\[url\,name\,jobs\[url\,name\,\
jobs\[url\,name\,jobs\[url\,name\,jobs\[url\,name\,\
jobs\[url\,name\,jobs\[url\,name\,jobs\[url\,name\,\
jobs\[url\,name\,jobs\]\]\]\]\]\]\]\]\]\]
https://jenkins.example.com/api/json
This returns almost instantly.
And it gets better: if we fail to correctly guess the nesting level
necessary, Jenkins returns
…, "jobs": [{}, {}, …], …
so we can easily detect that we need to recurse deeper.
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