hudson.model

Class Cause

java.lang.Object

hudson.model.Cause

Direct Known Subclasses:

Cause.LegacyCodeCause, Cause.RemoteCause, Cause.UpstreamCause, Cause.UpstreamCause.DeeplyNestedUpstreamCause, Cause.UserCause, Cause.UserIdCause, SCMTrigger.SCMTriggerCause, TimerTrigger.TimerTriggerCause

@ExportedBean
public abstract class Cause
extends Object

Cause object base class. This class hierarchy is used to keep track of why a given build was started. This object encapsulates the UI rendering of the cause, as well as providing more useful information in respective subtypes. The Cause object is connected to a build via the CauseAction object.

Views

description.jelly

Renders the cause to HTML. By default, it puts the short description.

Author:

Michael Donohue

See Also:

Run.getCauses(), Queue.Item.getCauses()

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
static class	Cause.LegacyCodeCause Deprecated. since 2009-02-08
static class	Cause.RemoteCause
static class	Cause.UpstreamCause A build is triggered by another build (AKA upstream build.)
static class	Cause.UserCause Deprecated. 1.428 use Cause.UserIdCause
static class	Cause.UserIdCause A build is started by an user action.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Cause()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
abstract String	getShortDescription() One-line human-readable text of the cause.
void	onAddedTo(AbstractBuild build) Deprecated.
void	onAddedTo(Run build) Called when the cause is registered.
void	onLoad(AbstractBuild<?,?> build) Deprecated.
void	onLoad(Run<?,?> build) Called when a build is loaded from disk.
void	print(TaskListener listener) Report a line to the listener about this cause.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Cause

public Cause()

Method Detail

getShortDescription

@Exported(visibility=3)
public abstract String getShortDescription()

One-line human-readable text of the cause.

By default, this method is used to render HTML as well.

onAddedTo

public void onAddedTo(@Nonnull
                      Run build)

Called when the cause is registered.

Since:

1.568

onAddedTo

@Deprecated
public void onAddedTo(AbstractBuild build)

Deprecated.

onLoad

public void onLoad(@Nonnull
                   Run<?,?> build)

Called when a build is loaded from disk. Useful in case the cause needs to keep a build reference; this ought to be transient.

Since:

1.568

onLoad

@Deprecated
public void onLoad(AbstractBuild<?,?> build)

Deprecated.

print

public void print(TaskListener listener)

Report a line to the listener about this cause.

Since:

1.362