How to use jenkins crediential plugin api

[wulonghui]

Does jenkins crediential plugin support restapi , how to create credientials by ruby client?
Any example?

[wulonghui]

I tried the method to create crediential as the post gave , but it doesnot work.

post_params = {
          "name" => "testcred",
          "description" => "test cred description",
          "json" => {
            "domainCredentials" => {
              "domain" => {
                "name" => "",
                "description" => "",
              },
              "credentials" => {
                "scope" => "GLOBAL",
                "id" => "",
                "username" => "root",
                "description" => "root users credential",
                "privateKeySource" => {
                  "value" => "0",
                  "privateKey" => "blah blah blah",
                  "stapler-class" => "com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.sshcredentials.impl.BasicSSHUserPrivateKey$DirectEntryPrivateKeySource"
                },
                "passphrase" => "",
                "stapler-class" => "com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.sshcredentials.impl.BasicSSHUserPrivateKey",
                "kind" => "com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.sshcredentials.impl.BasicSSHUserPrivateKey"
              }
            }
          }.to_json
        }
@client.api_post_request("/credentials/configSumbit", post_params)

Jenkins ver. 1.550
Credentials Plugin 1.9.3

[arangamani]

@wulonghui I haven't tried the Jenkins credentials plugin API yet. I'll let you know what I find.

[wulonghui]

@arangamani Thanks in advance

[ghost]

I'm also looking for a way to create a new credential via the REST API (or even the cli). It looks like it should be somewhere in https://github.com/jenkinsci/credentials-plugin/ but I'm not familiar enough with jenkins to figure it out.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29616660/how-to-create-jenkins-credentials-via-the-rest-api

[goindwalia]

I am looking for the same @dachary , let me know if you have figured out this.

[rG8KDQ5YXlJ7fcE80CLmNx]

@wulonghui Hitting an endpoint that actually exists may help.
Try: "/credentials/configSubmit" instead of "/credentials/configSumbit"
I've tested on Jenkins 1.619 and it works fine.

[wulonghui]

@rG8KDQ5YXlJ7fcE80CLmNx Thanks

[luisfernandos]

Try this:

curl -X POST 'http://user:token@jenkins_server:8080/credentials/store/system/domain/_/createCredentials'
--data-urlencode 'json={
"": "0",
"credentials": {
"scope": "GLOBAL",
"id": "identification",
"username": "manu",
"password": "bar",
"description": "linda",
"$class": "com.cloudbees.plugins.credentials.impl.UsernamePasswordCredentialsImpl"
}
}'

[jurgenweber]

I am having the same issue but just trying to do it bash, it will not accept my privateKey value.

Caused: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Failed to convert the privateKeySource parameter of the constructor public com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.sshcredentials.impl.BasicSSHUserPrivateKey(com.cloudbees.plugins.credentials.CredentialsScope,java.lang.String,java.lang.String,com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.sshcredentials.impl.BasicSSHUserPrivateKey$PrivateKeySource,java.lang.String,java.lang.String) any ideas?

How are you formatting the private key inside its value?

[gothiyag]

There is a problem with SSH private_key direct posting. when i post it with ssh private key, it is removing "+" sign from the content. Am using ansible for this.

• name: configure ssh credential
  uri:
  url: "https://{{ host_ip }}/credentials/store/system/domain/_/createCredentials"
  method: POST
  headers:
  Content-Type: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
  Accept: "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,/;q=0.8"
  Accept-Encoding: "gzip, deflate, br"
  others: "--data-urlencode"
  body: 'json={"": "6",
  "credentials": {
  "scope": "GLOBAL",
  "username": "{{ ssh_cred.value.username }}",
  "privateKeySource": {
  "value": "0",
  "privateKey": "-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
  /abbhsshsnne +bbbebe
  ----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----",
  "stapler-class": "com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.sshcredentials.impl.BasicSSHUserPrivateKey$DirectEntryPrivateKeySource"
  },
  "passphrase": "{{ ssh_cred.value.passphrase }}",
  "id": "{{ ssh_cred.value.id }}",
  "description": "{{ ssh_cred.value.description }}",
  "stapler-class": "com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.sshcredentials.impl.BasicSSHUserPrivateKey",
  "$class": "com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.sshcredentials.impl.BasicSSHUserPrivateKey"
  }
  }'
  validate_certs: no
  follow_redirects: yes
  register: login
  return_content: yes
  with_dict: "{{ ssh_credentials }}"
  loop_control:
  loop_var: ssh_cred

This is removing + sign which in the private key. also if you read the key from any variable, it is adding 'u[ private key]'
am i doing anything wrong ?

[sergeypapyan]

@gogskrish You should urlencode the key contents