Build Job from Jenkins Pipeline with variable

Question

I'm not able to build a job from jenkins pipeline passing a variable for job name. Please find below the code snippet. If I replace ${service} with 'microservice' it will trigger the job

service = 'microservice'
echo "TESSSSSSSSTTT ${service}"
build(job: "'${service}'", parameters: [string(name: 'ENVNAME', value: 'uat')])

The error faced is:

[Pipeline] echo
TESSSSSSSSTTT microservice
[Pipeline] build
[Pipeline] End of Pipeline
ERROR: No item named 'microservice' found
Finished: FAILURE

I'm using this method because I want to hit a build command for all the microservices passing the names with multi-line string parameter, finally I want to set this build into a loop.

Answer 1

I assume your job is not called 'microservice' in Jenkins but microservice (without the ticks).

So change your build line to not include single quotes after the double quote:

build(job: "${service}", parameters: [string(name: 'ENVNAME', value: 'uat')])

Did some simple test with my jenkins instance and was able to call a job by setting the service variable to an existing job name.