configuration - Configure or Create hudson job automatically

Question

Is there any way to create new Hudson job by one more Hudson job based one previous Jobs?

For example if I need to create new bunch of jobs one by one, Automatically create 4 jobs with similar configuration with different parameter

Basically steps like this

1. create SVN branch I can call svn cp command and make it parametrized using script
2. Create some build based on new svnbranch name
3. Later tag it

Or other word, I need to clone the previous job and give the new branch name where ever $ Branch comes in new job.

Thanks

Answer 1

You can try the Hudson Remote API for this kind of task (setting up an Hudson project).

See this tutorial for instance, and remember you can display the help quite easily:

java -jar hudson-cli.jar -s http://your_Hudson_server/ help

So, to copy a job:

java -jar hudson-cli.jar -s http://your_Hudson_server/ copy-job myjob copy-myjob