#!/usr/bin/python
#
# author: ajs
# license: bsd
# copyright: re2


import json
import sys
import urllib2

jenkinsUrl = "https://jenkins.example.com/job/"


if len( sys.argv ) > 1 :
    jobName = sys.argv[1]
else :
    sys.exit(1)

try:
    jenkinsStream   = urllib2.urlopen( jenkinsUrl + jobName + "/lastBuild/api/json" )
except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
    print "URL Error: " + str(e.code)
    print "      (job name [" + jobName + "] probably wrong)"
    sys.exit(2)

try:
    buildStatusJson = json.load( jenkinsStream )
except:
    print "Failed to parse json"
    sys.exit(3)

if buildStatusJson.has_key( "result" ):
    print "[" + jobName + "] build status: " + buildStatusJson["result"]
    if buildStatusJson["result"] != "SUCCESS" :
        exit(4)
else:
    sys.exit(5)

sys.exit(0)

java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s <url of Jenkins instance> build <project> -s

java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s <url of Jenkins instance> build <project> -f

echo $?

from jenkinsapi.jenkins import Jenkins

jenkins_url = 'http://<server url>/'
server = Jenkins(jenkins_url, username = 'myUser', password = myPass)

job_instance = server.get_job('the job name')
running = job_instance.is_queued_or_running()
if not running:
   latestBuild=job_instance.get_last_build()
   print latestBuild.get_status()

http://localhost/jenkins/job/<jobName>/lastBuild/api/xml