Get absolute path to workspace directory in Jenkins Pipeline plugin

Question

I m currently doing some evaluation on the Jenkins Pipeline plugin  formerly know as Workflow plugin   Reading the documentation I found out that I currently cannot retriev the workspace path using env WORKSPACE   The following variables are currently unavailable inside a workflow script  NODE LABELS WORKSPACE SCM-specific variables such as SVN REVISION  Is there any other way how to get the absolute path to the current workspace  I need this running some test which in turn gets some parameter  absolute path to some executable file   I already tried using new File  quot  quot   absolutePath   inside a  NonCPS section but looks like the non-CPS stuff gets always executed on the master  Does anybody have a clue how to get this path without running some batch script which stores the path into some file which later on can be read in again

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For me WORKSPACE was a valid property of the pipeline itself. So when I handed over this to a Groovy method as parameter context from the pipeline script itself, I was able to access the correct value using "... ${context.WORKSPACE} ..."

(on Jenkins 2.222.3, Build Pipeline Plugin 1.5.8, Pipeline: Nodes and Processes 2.35)

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Since version 2 5 of the Pipeline Nodes and Processes Plugin  a component of the Pipeline plugin  installed by default   the WORKSPACE environment variable is available again  This version was released on 2016-09-23  so it should be available on all up-to-date Jenkins instances   Example  node  label           now you are on slave labeled with  label      def workspace   WORKSPACE          workspace  will now contain an absolute path to job workspace on slave      workspace   env WORKSPACE          workspace  will still contain an absolute path to job workspace on slave         When using a GString at least later Jenkins versions could only handle the env WORKSPACE variant      echo  Current workspace is   env WORKSPACE           the current Jenkins instances will support the short syntax  too      echo  Current workspace is  WORKSPACE

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Note  this solution works only if the slaves have the same directory structure as the master  pwd   will return the workspace directory on the master due to JENKINS-33511   I used to do it using pwd   functionality of pipeline plugin  So  if you need to get a workspace on slave  you may do smth like this   node  label          now you are on slave labeled with  label      def workspace   pwd           workspace  will now contain an absolute path to job workspace on slave

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WORKSPACE  environment variable works for the latest version of Jenkins Pipeline  You can use this in your Jenkins file     env WORKSPACE    Sample use below   def files   findFiles glob      reports   json  for  def i 0  i lt files length  i      jsonFilePath      files i  path          jsonPath      env WORKSPACE           jsonFilePath echo jsonPath   hope that helps

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