Cancel queued builds and aborting executing builds using Groovy for Jenkins

Question

For Jenkins using a Groovy System Script, is there a way to easily search the build queue and list of executing builds for some criteria (specifically a parameter that matches some condition) and then kill/cancel them?

I cannot seem to find any way to do this, but it seems like it should be possible.

Answer 1

I haven't tested it myself, but looking at the API it should be possible in the following way:

import hudson.model.*
import jenkins.model.Jenkins

def q = Jenkins.instance.queue

q.items.findAll { it.task.name.startsWith('my') }.each { q.cancel(it.task) }

Relevant API links:

• http://javadoc.jenkins-ci.org/jenkins/model/Jenkins.html
• http://javadoc.jenkins-ci.org/hudson/model/Queue.html