I have instances of Jenkins and GitLab which are successfully connected. Part of setting up the GitLab plug-in involves providing an API token. I believe this is used by the plug-in to get details of the commit which is triggering a job.
I need to run a daily Jenkins job which collects some statistics using the API and then (using R) generates a report. So this is not triggered by an event in GitLab.
To complicate issues a little further, the R code will run inside a container (to avoid hving to install R and all the packages on every Jenkins slave),
It does not appear that the plug-in makes the token available to be used in jobs ... and I can see a sane reason for that.
Is it possible to access the API token from the plug-in?
