Cartridge Loader should allow generic Key Value pair params

[luismsousa]

ENHANCEMENT:
As a Jenkins developer, I want to load a cartridge collection and have it receive a Key-value pair map that will be passed on to each loaded cartridge in the collection.

Currently, the Cartridge loader receives a JSON payload specifying the cartridge URLs and the Folder names.

The proposed is to add either an extended choice or multi-line string parameter to inject collection params at load time. This would allow for example to load a set of cartridges for a specific target environment.

[nickdgriffin]

Somewhat scary, as I had practically the same idea last night - great minds?

Griffin, Nicholas·9:37 AM

Here's a crazy idea I had very late last night:
Load_Cartridge has a multi-line string field called something fun like "EXTRA_PROPS" which takes in K=V pairs
First step of the job parses that field, throws errors if there's any form of problem with the data, then allows it to be injected into the build as environment variables
Cartridges can then provide the ability to provide their own values that you can override, for example we might have a "standard" one called "PRIMARY_REPO" that if set lets you override what to point the build job at
Going up an extra level, a cartridge collection could also pass these values in - turning it into a better manifest for generating batches of jobs

[luismsousa]

spooky 😃
Here's what we're proposing, new stuff in blue.

[RobertNorthard]

@dsingh07 @nickdgriffin will this be covered by custom cartridge properties?