How to name the custom workspace in Jenkins job with branch name triggered by Github webhook?

Question

I have created a single job in Jenkins to be triggered by commit on any branches in the GitHub using Webhook.
I want to create a custom workspace for each job trigger with respective to the branch commit.

I Tried following options and could not achieve it. Appreciate for any help.

Job Name : Test_Clone

Used advance options in general section and tried below options to name the workspace dynamically.

1. Test_Clone_${GIT_BRANCH} - always gives the branch name from previous build.
2. Test_Clone_${ref} - tried to use ref as defined in GitHub webhook payload, with no result.

To achieve: Ex: Commit from GitHub branch release-2.13.0 , Jenkins should create workspace with name Test_Clone_release-2.13.0 .

Answer 1

You might try and setup

• first a payload variable in your Jenkins build, as described in " How to process a github webhook payload in Jenkins? "

• then a webhook url (on GitHub side) of:

   http://<<yourserver>>/job/<<yourjob>>/buildWithParameters?token=<<yourtoken>> 

Then your Jenkins job would have the xml webhook payload in it, which you can analyze ( with jq ) and extract the ' ref ' which includes the branch name .

From there, I would call (chain) a second job with a " branch " parameter (unless you can write a pipeline DSL with Jenkins 2) with that branch name, in order for the second job to use a custom workspace name based on that parameter