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Eclipse plugin for Hudson

  • May 3rd, 2007
  • 1:12 am

We’ve recently started using Hudson as a replacement for CruiseControl. It has been a very pleasant switch, but I was missing a plugin for Eclipse to get a tighter integration. Luckily, Hudson has a easy to use API, and Eclipse plugins are not hard to make, so I created a small plugin. It looks something like this:

Hudson Eclipse plugin
The plugin can be downloaded here.
Authentication is not supported at the moment, but if anybody needs it, it should be pretty simple to add.

Update: The plugin is now hosted at http://code.google.com/p/hudson-eclipse/.

35 People had this to say...

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  • Brill
  • May 7th, 2007
  • 7:34 am

Nice…
Works cleanly and is simple.
Two features I’d like to see:
- Allow multiple Hudson servers
- Get console output for a build

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  • Andrew Craft
  • May 22nd, 2007
  • 4:51 pm

Great plugin, exactly what I wanted.

Any chance of distributing the source or setting it up as an open source project somewhere? This would keep the project alive and let others extend it. For example I noticed a small bug when you double click an item in the list of projects.

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  • erwin
  • May 25th, 2007
  • 9:19 am

Could it be that a project that has never been build produces an error when fetching the xml data.

Unable to communicate with Hudson

With in the details a project that hasn’t been build.

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  • Daniel
  • June 5th, 2007
  • 2:53 pm

This pugin seems to be so cool, but unfortunately we have defined authentication in the tomcat-users.xml :(

Why isn’t it possible to do this kind of notation:
http://user:passwort@whateverdomain.com/hudson

I still get 503. :(

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  • Paja
  • June 7th, 2007
  • 4:35 pm

Seems like a nice plugin, but…

I have installed plugin into Eclipse 3.2.1, configured url to “http://localhost:8080/hudson” (check is ok), opened Hudson view, but there are no projects/builds listed.

Hudson version is 1.106.

‘URL’/api/xml is accesible. Security is disabled.

Any suggestions, please?

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  • Daniel
  • June 11th, 2007
  • 2:30 pm

The 503 still doesn’t makes sense to me, according to this , all data is still readable .. and it is. Even if I’m not logged in I can access the /api/xml .. so why is security a problem?

Regards Daniel
ps.: please contribute the project source, etc. to a open source plattform. Thanks.

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  • D0UHaveMyStapler
  • June 22nd, 2007
  • 4:38 pm

Problem?
I dropped the jar in the eclipse plugin directory.
I configured it with the correct url, and the test returned back valid.
When I open the Hudson View in eclipse it does not show any Jobs/Projects. However, it does show a the green checkmark on the bottom to indicate “All Builds ok” and if the builds break it shows the red x.
Any ideas?

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Hi Joakim,

great plugin! Unfortunately there is a small bug that prevents me from using it. All my hudson builds have a space in their name. Example: “foo build”. The plugin seems to escape the space incorrectly:

http://venus:8080/hudson/job/foo+build/api/xml

instead of

http://venus:8080/hudson/job/foo%20build/api/xml

Would love to get an updated version :) .

Kind regards,
Elias.

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  • Joerg
  • July 21st, 2007
  • 11:09 pm

Hi,

have the same problem as DOUHaveMyStapler. Hudson View does not show any Jobs.

Is there a new version of this plugin?

Thanks,
Joerg

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  • dilas
  • July 24th, 2007
  • 4:24 am

The source code is already included in jar file.

Would be great if you put this plugin at Eclipse Plugin Central – EPIC (http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/)

Im having the same issues with job name containing spaces… (maybe some tweak into HudsonClient.java can do the work)

Anyway, thanks for the great plugin :)

dilas.com.br

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  • Tim
  • August 14th, 2007
  • 2:10 pm

Great plugin!

I found that the JobLabelProvider is leaking Image objects. This eventually causes eclipse to crash with an SWT no more handles error.

I think the plugin needs to use an ImageRegistry to store the icon instances, e.g. see http://www.javalobby.org/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=16557.

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  • Graglia
  • October 13th, 2007
  • 9:49 am

I have pb with Hudson+SSL (own signed certifacte). I have to modify the plugin source to allow that kind of certifacte.. but I think Eclipse can handle that kind of certifcate. I also use subclipse with https urls and that plugin handle well those urls : I get a certificate dialog box with accept temporaly or definitively buttons..

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  • recht
  • October 13th, 2007
  • 5:20 pm

Support for SSL is added to the feature requests list, and I’ll try to implement it for the next version.

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  • Yan Burdett
  • June 6th, 2008
  • 5:59 pm

Wow, nice plugin! Any chance we could get a plugin that’s Eclipse 3.2 compatible. We use RAD 7.0 which runs on top of Eclipse 3.2. It would be nice to our Hudson builds in RAD.

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  • Paul Thornton
  • June 18th, 2008
  • 1:58 pm

Yeah, would be great if you can make it compatible with Eclipse 3.2, we are also tied to this version at present.

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  • Stewart
  • March 12th, 2009
  • 5:05 pm

Great plugin, but it seems to hang the whole Eclipse workbench if it cannot get through to Hudson.
In my Eclipse logs are repeated:
12-Mar-2009 15:02:37 org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector executeWithRetry
INFO: I/O exception (java.net.ConnectException) caught when processing request: Connection timed out: connect
12-Mar-2009 15:02:37 org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector executeWithRetry
INFO: Retrying request
12-Mar-2009 15:03:49 org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector executeWithRetry
INFO: I/O exception (java.net.ConnectException) caught when processing request: Connection timed out: connect
12-Mar-2009 15:03:49 org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector executeWithRetry
INFO: Retrying request
12-Mar-2009 15:04:10 org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector executeWithRetry
INFO: I/O exception (java.net.ConnectException) caught when processing request: Connection timed out: connect
12-Mar-2009 15:04:10 org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector executeWithRetry
INFO: Retrying request
12-Mar-2009 15:04:31 org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector executeWithRetry
INFO: I/O exception (java.net.ConnectException) caught when processing request: Connection timed out: connect
12-Mar-2009 15:04:31 org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector executeWithRetry
INFO: Retrying request
java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:519)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:469)
at java.net.Socket.(Socket.java:366)
at java.net.Socket.(Socket.java:240)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.protocol.DefaultProtocolSocketFactory.createSocket(DefaultProtocolSocketFactory.java:80)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.protocol.DefaultProtocolSocketFactory.createSocket(DefaultProtocolSocketFactory.java:122)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpConnection.open(HttpConnection.java:707)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeWithRetry(HttpMethodDirector.java:387)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeMethod(HttpMethodDirector.java:171)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:397)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:346)
at dk.contix.eclipse.hudson.HudsonClient.checkValidUrl(HudsonClient.java:180)
at dk.contix.eclipse.hudson.preference.HudsonPreferencesPage$HudsonUrlField.check(HudsonPreferencesPage.java:128)
at dk.contix.eclipse.hudson.preference.HudsonPreferencesPage$HudsonUrlField.checkState(HudsonPreferencesPage.java:117)

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  • recht
  • April 7th, 2009
  • 9:50 pm

Thanks for the error report. The next version has a lower connection timeout, so the workbench shouldn’t hang anymore.

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  • luk
  • March 16th, 2010
  • 6:27 pm

Why it doesn’t work on Galileo ?
Error : “Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence

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  • Stefan Heckler
  • April 22nd, 2010
  • 9:35 am

I would love to use this plugin (V 1.0.10), but I face the same problem as luk using it with Eclipse Galileo: URL is checked valid, but
I see no builds, but all views (tabs) and the popup says “Cannot coummunicate with Hudson: Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence”

Will there be a bugfix??

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