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Agreed, I love the groovy jenkins job DSL. It's so awesome and simple. Easy to put everything on github and forget about it.

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Besides all the special cases in the normal use of Apache Groovy (e.g. definition of `==` different to Java), you also have to remember all the Jenkins-specific special cases (e.g. Groovy's collections methods don't work). I wouldn't call it simple or easy at all.

I don't do fancy things in my jenkins builds, so your mileage will vary.

Are you sure you're not thinking of Jenkins _Pipeline_?

Jenkins _Pipeline_ definitely has these issues. Jenkins _Job DSL_ has always worked fine, including all the special collection method operations (grep, find, collect, each...)

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