How to get list of free_style jobs using xml REST api in jenkins?

Question

I want to get list of free_style jobs from remote Jenkins.
eg. http://localhost:8080/api/xml?tree=jobs[name,url,description] by this i am able to get all jobs but i want to filter only freestyle project.

Answer 1

Add a XPath filter for the _class attribute value, and wrap the results with a tag, e.g. root:

http://localhost:8080/api/xml?tree=jobs[name,url,description]&xpath=hudson/job[@_class="hudson.model.FreeStyleProject"]&wrapper=root