Jenkins – what exactly does “archive artifacts” step do in Jenkins

Jenkins

I have a Jenkins master server plus multiple slave machines that get created and destroyed all the time.

I could not find any documentation on what exactly "archive artifacts" option does in a Jenkins job.

does it copy artifacts from slave machine's workspace to some folder on master server?

or does it save files from the slave's workspace to the same slave's "archive" location? in this case if the slave server is destroyed, those files would be gone.

if I delete the workspace, will those archived artifacts survive?

if I delete builds history, will they survive?

etc

Best Answer

If you are talking about the "Archive the artifacts" post-build step, it copies the selected artifacts in the %JENKINS_HOME%/jobs/MY_JOB/builds/... on the master server.

So if you delete your slave or if you wipe your workspace, you won't lose your artifacts.

But if you delete a build or if you discard the old builds, you will remove the artifacts.

I hope it helps :)

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Jenkins – Archive the artifacts in Jenkins

Your understanding is correct, an artifact in the Jenkins sense is the result of a build - the intended output of the build process.

A common convention is to put the result of a build into a build, target or bin directory.

The Jenkins archiver can use globs (target/*.jar) to easily pick up the right file even if you have a unique name per build.

Spring-mvc – Dynamically generate a list of available languages in Spring MVC

How about putting this into something that has access to the ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource?

ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource rrbms = getMessageSource();   
final String defaultMessage = "NOT FOUND";
List<Locale> availableLocales = new ArrayList<Locale>();
for (Locale locale : Locale.getAvailableLocales()) {
    String msg = rrbms.getMessage("test.code", null, defaultMessage, locale);
    if (!defaultMessage.equals(msg)) {
       availableLocales.add(locale);
    }
}

Just make sure each supported language supplies a test.code value and you're done.

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