CloudBees Template Plugin 4.0-beta-3

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RELEASED: Public: 2013-10-29

New features

  • CloudBees Internal Ticket: RM-1793

    Adding instantiate CLI command.

  • CloudBees Internal Ticket: RM-1793

    Adding /instantiate REST API command.

  • New template scripting documentation

    Export useful things from the REST API: basic template information: ID, super type, instantiability; attributes of a template; UI controls used by attributes; template & values for an entity instance.

  • CloudBees Internal Ticket: RM-1805

    Updating a job template’s definition by REST or CLI should reconfigure its instances.

[ZD-14081] At least offer a self link so as to see all instances after finished saving a job template.

  • CloudBees Internal Ticket: RM-1793

    When creating a templatized job from XML, set the name attribute and run the transformer automatically.

Minor simplifications to config.xml form of some templates instances.

Resolved issues

Rather than saying a job is created from a template "null", display a meaningful error.

Known issues

See beta 1 for various important warnings concerning settings formats in 4.x.

Internal changes to UIControl to provide a more uniform API. Only affects implementors of custom controls.

  • CloudBees Internal Ticket: RM-2134

    Most CLI/REST commands do not yet support structured data types (such as lists of components or auxiliary models).