Display HTML page inside mail body with Email-ext plugin - email

Question

I'm facing a little problem using Email-ext plugin on Jenkins.
I added the following line to inject my surefire html result to the email sent by the plugin :
${FILE,path="server/target/site/surefire-report.html"}
and I put contenant type as HTML (text/html)
I'm using Jenkins 1.651.1 and Email-ext plugin 2.42
I receive an e-mail in the end of my build with the following contenent
${FILE,path="server/target/site/surefire-report.html"}
It's like the plugin did not understand any thing.
Do you have an idea ?
any update on that ?
my project structure is like this :
workspace
master
commun
server/target/surefire-report/surefire-report.html

Answer 1

If you use a custom path this answer is for you
I had a complication trying to achieve this result because my path was dynamically changing and I had to use a variable inside a FILE variable. So when I tried any of the following
body: '${FILE,path=${report}}'
body: "${FILE,path=${report}}"
body: '''${FILE,path=${report}}'''
and many more, it didn't work. On the other hand I couldn't read the file with groovy because of Jenkins restrictions
My workaround was to read the html directly with groovy sh command like so
html_body = sh(script: "cat ${report}", returnStdout: true).trim()
and then just send the email
emailext replyTo: '$DEFAULT_REPLYTO',
subject: "subject",
to: EMAIL,
mimeType: 'text/html',
body: html_body
where ${report} was a path to html file like /var/jenkins/workspace_318/report.html

Answer 2

Please note that file path is relative to the workspace , if file resides in the root of your workspace , filename alone in the path will work , if it resides in a different location try somthing like this below :
${FILE,path="target/surefire-reports/emailable-report.html"}

Answer 3

I was also having the prob where the mail had the command with error coould not find file. Like mentioned above, the html file should be present exactly under the jenkins workspace folder. if not then give the relative path, even an extra "/" in front seems to throw error.
ex:
My file is in C:\CICDJenkins\ReadyAPIReport\summary.html
My jenkins workpace (im using custom workspace) is C:\CICDJenkins
what worked for me is:
${FILE, path="ReadyAPI_report/overview-summary.html"}