groovy - Access Jenkins pipeline definition within Jenkinsfile

Question

For a project I would like to know which branch is used to check out the pipeline script that is used. In this case I would get back that the branch is */develop

Job Definition example

Solved by using this:

String url = 'curl --user  '  + "${JENKINS_USER}:${JENKINS_PASS}" + ' https://jenkinsurl/job/'+ env.JOB_NAME + '/config.xml'
    
String CICD_BRANCH = new XmlSlurper().parseText(url.execute().text).definition.scm.branches."hudson.plugins.git.BranchSpec".getProperty("name").toString().substring(2);
        
env.CICDBRANCH = CICD_BRANCH.toString()

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65829369/access-jenkins-pipeline-definition-within-jenkinsfile

Answer 1

To get the current branch name in your pipline script you can use the below code.

echo "My branch is: ${scm.branches[0]}"
node('build_node') {

}