Editing builds in Jenkins through curl

Question

I'm trying to make a simple change in my Jenkins build: edit a name of build's description to some other name. (Just for the sake of practice). I'm typing such a command in terminal:

curl -i -X POST -d ""Description":"Some_other_description_name"" \
  "https://My_Login:My_password@jenkins_url/job/job_name/job_number/"

but it doesn't seem to work. Thx in advance

Check this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/25428716/1579623 — izzekil, Jun 03 '16 at 09:23
Using `""Description.. ` cannot work - either switch the outer double quotes do single ones or escape the inner ones. — StephenKing, Jun 03 '16 at 09:36
Why not using `jenkins-cli.jar set-build-description` command? Wouldn't it be simpler? — luka5z, Jun 05 '16 at 08:35

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:34

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There is no api for doing this. But it is possible to update the description with submitting the web form for it:

curl -u $USER:$PASSWORD   --data-urlencode "description=$new_description" \
--data-urlencode "Submit=Submit" \
"$jenkins_url/job/$job_name/$build_number/submitDescription"

Based on the answer of Slav.

If also want to change the build name, have a look for the other answer.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:34

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answered Jun 03 '16 at 09:40

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