Jenkins Build Failure Analyzer plugin regex multiline

Question

I am using the Jenkins Build Failure Analyzer plugin trying to match a multiline pattern in the build log. The text I want to match in the log is:

Total time: 1 minute 45 seconds
Build step 'Invoke Ant' marked build as failure

The regex I am using is:

(?s)Total(.*)failure

Seems pretty simple, but this is not matching the lines above.

Another example I am working with is:

     [java] ACTION REQUIRED
     [java] 
     [java] I want to match this line
     [java] as well as this line
     [java] 
     [java] CONSOLE LOG

The regex for this is:

(?s)REQUIRED(.*)CONSOLE

Also produces no results.

Answer 1

I'm guessing that the log contains further text, even if it's whitespace (or newlines).

Remember, the plugin uses Pattern.match() so it has to match the entire "line". So perhaps try:

(?s)Total(.*)failure.*

To be a little more specific, you could do end with \\s* to just match trailing whitespace:

(?s)Total(.*)failure\s*

Answer 2

The Build Analyzer Plugin uses Pattern.match against single lines - you're attempting to match a multiline string.

From the wiki page :

The Build Log Indication searches through the build log, one line at a time, for a regular expression.