User Authentication on Jenkins through java

Question

I was using jenkins and accessing urls directly.

eg. http://jenkins.local:8080/job/path_to_file/config.xml

and it used to give me an xml output.

Not the jenkins has an user login functionality. So accessing the same url lands me on the login page. How to have user authentication on Jenkins?

I checked for the apis but nothing suggests anything close to it.

Answer 1

You can use the following method:

public InputStream processPostRequest(String requestUrl) {

    DefaultHttpClient client = null;

    client = createHttpClient("admin", "pas");

    HttpEntity entity = null;

    BasicHttpContext context = null;
    context = createHttpContext();

    client.addRequestInterceptor(new HttpRequestInterceptor(), 0);
    HttpGet get = new HttpGet(requestUrl);

    try {

        // Execute your request with the given context
        HttpResponse response = client.execute(get, context);
        entity = response.getEntity();

    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    return entity..getContent();
}

where requestUrl is the url+config.xml. and HttpRequestInterceptor is an interfatce so you have to create your own class that extends it.