Post method fails with error 400 if we are posting config.xml to an inheritance project

[dprajasekhar]

Hello ,

There is a plugin called jenkins "build-per-branch ", which clones the master job and creates clone for the branches in the given git repository . As part of this the plugin does

1. Copy the job from the current to a new job
2. Update the branch details and in place of current through post method

However post method fails with httpcode 400 when there is an inheritance project . Looking at the code I think the following snippet in InhertiProject.java throws the error

	if (req.getMethod().equals("POST")) {
		super.doConfigDotXml(req, rsp);
	}
	if (!req.getMethod().equals("GET")) {
		//Huh? Only GET/POST make sense
		rsp.sendError(SC_BAD_REQUEST);
	}

If the http method is post , I think we should proceed instead of sending 400 error . Please correct me if I am wrong in this assumption

[dprajasekhar]

Exception trace is

Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 1; Premature end of file.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1239)
at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.transformIdentity(TransformerImpl.java:668)
at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.transform(TransformerImpl.java:737)