I'm trying to create a declarative Jenkins pipeline script but having issues with simple variable declaration.
Here is my script:
pipeline {
agent none
stages {
stage("first") {
def foo = "foo" // fails with "WorkflowScript: 5: Expected a step @ line 5, column 13."
sh "echo ${foo}"
}
}
}
However, I get this error:
org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed:
WorkflowScript: 5: Expected a step @ line 5, column 13.
def foo = "foo"
^
I'm on Jenkins 2.7.4 and Pipeline 2.4.
The Declarative model for Jenkins Pipelines has a restricted subset of syntax that it allows in the stage
blocks - see the syntax guide for more info. You can bypass that restriction by wrapping your steps in a script { ... }
block, but as a result, you'll lose validation of syntax, parameters, etc within the script
block.