How to use withCredentials for Perforce in Jenkins?

Question

I am attempting to retrieve the credentials for Perforce in my Jenkinsfile . The p4 credentials are saved using the standard Jenkins credentials store. I need the credentials to be in scope so that I can call a utility that will invoke p4 operations from a utility. The utility expects the P4PORT environment variable to be set.

I am aware of withCredentials , however, I am not sure how to leverage this to retrieve the P4Port property saved on the credential.

The closest credentials binding I've found is usernamePassword() , however that doesn't seem to be able to give me access to the P4Port property.

The error I am experiencing is:

Credentials 'my-credentials-id' is of type 'Perforce Password Credential'...

Is there a binding that is intended to be used with 'Perforce Password Credential' ?

Answer 1

The binding to a variable is handled by https://plugins.jenkins.io/credentials-binding/

It only supports specific types of credentials, see https://javadoc.jenkins.io/plugin/credentials/com/cloudbees/plugins/credentials/common/package-summary.html

So the credentials plugin would have to have a credential Interface that allows access to additional information, specifically your P4PORT. Then the p4 plugin could implement it.

The p4 plugin supports the username/password (StandardUsernamePasswordCredentials) with the perforce password credential.