While using jenkins API, getting a failure on reconfig_job

[Kuber]

I am using jenkins rest API to recurse through jobs and then reconfigure this one. All methods work except one. He's is my code :

def get_server_instance():
    jenkins_url = 'xxxx'
    #server = Jenkins(jenkins_url, username = '', password = '')
    # Connect to instance - username and password are optional
    server = jenkins.Jenkins(jenkins_url, username = '', password = '')
    return server

def get_job_details():
    # Refer Example #1 for definition of function 'get_server_instance'
    server = get_server_instance()
    for job in server.get_jobs_list():
        if job == "GithubMigration":
            configuration = server.get_job(job).get_config().encode('utf-8')
            #server.reconfig_job(job, configuration)
            if server.has_job("GithubMigration"):
                server.reconfig_job('GithubMigration', config_xml)

It gets my configuration.xml, find the job as well but fails on server.reconfig_job('GithubMigration', config_xml) with the error , AttributeError: 'Jenkins' object has no attribute 'reconfig_job'

when obviously this functions exists in the jenkins rest API and yes I'm importing jenkins, from jenkinsapi.jenkins import Jenkins .

Edit 1 - I uninstalled Jenkinsapi and have only python-jenkins module and now it fails even before saying

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Jenkins' for line : AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Jenkins'

Any ideas?

[Khai Do (zaro0508)]

Could you please provide python-jenkins version and the version of Jenkins?

[Kranthikurapati (kranthikurapati)]

I am slo facing the issue while working with reconfig_job.Please note that I am able to get all the other information after loggied in to the server using the script. Python-jenkins fails to run reconfig_job only with the modified xml and job name as parametre.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "get_build.py", line 47, in <module>
    server.reconfig_job(job1,'jenkins.config_xml')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jenkins/__init__.py", line 1019, in reconfig_job
    DEFAULT_HEADERS))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jenkins/__init__.py", line 448, in jenkins_open
    e.code, e.msg)
jenkins.JenkinsException: Error in request. Possibly authentication failed [500]: Server Error

[Rusty Howell (rustyhowell)]

It seems that reconfig_job() only works on Freestyle projects. If the project is a Maven project, Multi-configuration project, or a Multi-job project, (I haven't tested the rest), then the reconfig_job() call will fail with the HTTP 500 error.

Jenkins==2.46.3
python-jenkins==0.4.15
python==3.5.2