Building a jenkins job from a python script using a parameters file

build_jenkins_job.py

import requests
import json
import urllib
from optparse import OptionParser

URL_PATTERN="http://HOSTNAME:8080/job/{job_name}/buildWithParameters?{params}"
USER="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx"
TOKEN="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"


def format_params(params):
    ret = []
    for key, value in params.iteritems():
        ret.append({
            "name": key,
            "value": value
        })
    return ret


def parse_args():
    parser = OptionParser()
    parser.add_option("-j", "--job_name", dest="job_name", help="Name of the job that we would like to build")
    parser.add_option("-p", "--params_file", dest="params_file", help="Path to the parameters file")

    return parser.parse_args()


def main(job_name, params_file, token=TOKEN):
    with open(params_file, "r") as f:
        params = json.load(f)

    params["token"] = TOKEN
    url = URL_PATTERN.format(job_name=job_name, params=urllib.urlencode(params))

    resp = requests.post(url)

    return resp


if __name__ == "__main__":
    options, args = parse_args()
    main(options.job_name, options.params_file)