jenkins groovy get API token of a user

get-api-token-of-user-jenkins-groovy.md

This is pretty simple snippet to get API Token of a user , lets say "MYUser" in jenkins.
its pretty useful when you are working with 'jenkins-job-builder' to update jobs in jenkins, and you need to get the api token which JJB needs inorder to update jobs to ..
run this code in either jenkins script console , or as i prefer, in form of init.groovy.
so when jenkins master starts, i create a user for JJb.
after that i get the token right away and pass it to my JJB jobs folder to file 'jenkins_jobs.ini' :)_ .

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import jenkins.security.*
//j.jenkins.setSecurityRealm(j.createDummySecurityRealm());        
User u = User.get("Myuser")  
ApiTokenProperty t = u.getProperty(ApiTokenProperty.class)  
def token = t.getApiToken()
//token.getClass()
println "token is $token "
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I might be wrong, but I had to import hudson.model.* too to resolve the "unable to resolve class User" error.

@ripcurld00d depends how you run it - from the script console hudson.model.* is imported for you. if you run via the CLI you have to import everything yourself

Sadly this returns 'Token is Hidden' (same as the Show API Token in user/config) for me.

you guys are right, this is masked in jenkins version above 1.596.2 . i was testing this with jenkins version 1.596.2

This works...def token = t.getApiTokenInsecure()