Who's the user that executed Jenkins job

I need to include information about the user that executed 开发者_JAVA百科Jenkins job inside JAR Manifest among other things

What variable I need to read it off?

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You can query Jenkins via its api. See http://[jenkins-host]/api or https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Remote+access+API for help. The information you need is contained there.

To get a feel for it, enter http://[jenkins-host]/api/xml?depth=2 and search for "started by" on the page (make sure set the depth to at least 2).

You will need to get that information via a script in your build and then parse it based on the build id.

There already exists Python wrapper for that sort of thing: http://packages.python.org/python-jenkins/

Here's also an XPath expression that will parse out the "started by..." info by BUILD_ID:

http://[jenkins-host]/api/xml?depth=2&xpath=//build/id[text()='BUILD_ID']/../action/cause/shortDescription/text()

(Of course, you need to specify the actual BUILD_ID string).

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Information about the user who started the build seems unavailable through environment variables set by Jenkins.