Sidebar link with Jenkins user name veriable

[kooyunmo]

Feature Request

Hi, thank you for the great useful plugin.

It seems that the sidebar plugin does not allow to use any environment variable for the URL (e.g., https://example.com&user=$USER_NAME). I wish to use the dynamic URL link containing the logged-in Jenkins user ID. Is there any way to do this?

[damianszczepanik]

You are right. I don't know if USER_NAME is known from context plugin. Maybe TokenMacro can be added as dependency to have support for some variable

[KalleOlaviNiemitalo]

The TokenMacro.expand, TokenMacro.expandAll, and TokenMacro.evaluate methods take a Run<?,?> or AbstractBuild<?, ?> parameter and often assume that the value is not null. This does not seem suitable for sidebar links of a job, agent, folder, or the main page. I think a custom parser and a custom set of macros would be a better solution.