Additional Jython Helper Functions
This topic provides information on additional helper functions available in Jython Script tasks and Python scripts for plugin tasks, complementing the Jython API.
This topic provides information on additional helper functions available in Jython Script tasks and Python scripts for plugin tasks, complementing the Jython API.
A Jython Script task contains a Jython script that is executed on the Release server. This is an automated task that completes when the script finishes successfully.
You can extend Release by creating new endpoints backed by Jython scripts. You can use this feature, for example, to integrate with other systems.
You can extend the functionality of the official Release plugin for Deploy by using xldeploy-py, the Python SDK for Deploy.
You can extend Release by creating new endpoints backed by Jython scripts and new UI screens that use them. Each extension must be packaged in a jar archive and saved in the plugins folder of the Release server.
This topic demonstrates how to use a Jython Script task in Release to extract a value from a key-value map release variable and store it in another variable.
The execution flow can be controlled by setting a precondition on a task.
This page describes common API errors and their solutions.