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The explain-error-plugin is designed to assist developers in diagnosing and fixing errors in their Jenkins pipeline jobs. By leveraging AI technology, the plugin provides insightful explanations of error logs, making it easier for users to understand the root causes of failures and take corrective actions.

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• ⛔ Required: The jelly file https://github.com/shenxianpeng/explain-error-plugin/blob/bd31e2ecd13101278ccbf82d25ec245a9ed5b5e5/src/main/resources/io/jenkins/plugins/explain_error/ConsolePageDecorator/footer.jelly contains a <script> tag with inline javascript.
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[mawinter69]

• You're using the Java logger at level info very intensively. The jenkins logs should not be abused for tracing. This will spam the Jenkins logs making it hard for admins to easily find real issues. Please use log level fine and higher only so that an admin can create a specific logger only for the plugin if required. Also many log events with level warning are not really helpful especially when the same message is also written to the build log directly, this just duplicates things
• https://github.com/shenxianpeng/explain-error-plugin/blob/6dcc1009a608a783202d87750a8a4993883d33ac/src/main/java/io/jenkins/plugins/explain_error/ConsoleExplainErrorAction.java#L138 don't use #printStackTrace() on an exception.
• `https://github.com/shenxianpeng/explain-error-plugin/blob/6dcc1009a608a783202d87750a8a4993883d33ac/src/main/java/io/jenkins/plugins/explain_error/AIService.java#L9 Please don't use commons.lang. You should switch to commons.lang, for this you must define dependency to the https://plugins.jenkins.io/commons-lang3-api/ plugin. Applies to other places as well
• https://github.com/shenxianpeng/explain-error-plugin/blob/6dcc1009a608a783202d87750a8a4993883d33ac/src/main/java/io/jenkins/plugins/explain_error/ExplainErrorStep.java#L68 That method is not needed. Right now you don't have a config.jelly for your step which means that you can't configure the step via the snippet generator. If you add a config.jelly you can then use f:number making the method obsolete probably.
• https://github.com/shenxianpeng/explain-error-plugin/blob/6dcc1009a608a783202d87750a8a4993883d33ac/src/main/java/io/jenkins/plugins/explain_error/ExplainErrorStep.java#L32 You should not create a second constructor for optional parameters but instead define setter methods for them that are annotated with @DataBoundSetter. When creating the config.jelly consider adding help files for the parameters
• The fact that the explainError step has 2 parameters is not documented in the README.
• https://github.com/shenxianpeng/explain-error-plugin/blob/6dcc1009a608a783202d87750a8a4993883d33ac/src/main/java/io/jenkins/plugins/explain_error/ErrorExplanationAction.java#L8 You might consider making this a RunAction2,
• https://github.com/shenxianpeng/explain-error-plugin/blob/6dcc1009a608a783202d87750a8a4993883d33ac/src/main/java/io/jenkins/plugins/explain_error/ErrorExplanationAction.java#L22 Please don't refer to images directly. The recommended approach is to use symbols, see design-library
• The approach to attach the ConsoleExplainErrorAction via a RunListener is not really the way to go I think. This will only work for runs that started after plugin was installed. TransientActionFactory allows to inject the action to every run.
• https://github.com/shenxianpeng/explain-error-plugin/blob/6dcc1009a608a783202d87750a8a4993883d33ac/src/main/java/io/jenkins/plugins/explain_error/ErrorExplainer.java#L48 This adds a new action everytime the step is called or someone presses the button on the console page. So you can end up with many actions for the same run. Consider using #addOrReplaceAction
• The ExplainErrorPlugin class is not needed, you only need the inner GlobalConfigurationImpl (but rename it to ExplainErrorGlobalConfiguration.
• https://github.com/shenxianpeng/explain-error-plugin/blob/6dcc1009a608a783202d87750a8a4993883d33ac/src/main/java/io/jenkins/plugins/explain_error/ExplainErrorPlugin.java#L39 This should be the @DataBoundConstructor remove the other constructor with the parameters, you have corresponding setters
• https://github.com/shenxianpeng/explain-error-plugin/blob/6dcc1009a608a783202d87750a8a4993883d33ac/src/main/java/io/jenkins/plugins/explain_error/ExplainErrorPlugin.java#L34 This must be of type Secret otherwise you store a password like thing in plain text, the jelly properly uses f:password. Also the getter and setter must use Secret
• https://github.com/shenxianpeng/explain-error-plugin/blob/6dcc1009a608a783202d87750a8a4993883d33ac/src/main/java/io/jenkins/plugins/explain_error/ExplainErrorPlugin.java#L104 The method is missing a permission check. Should be Jenkins.MANAGE probably

[mawinter69]

• https://github.com/shenxianpeng/explain-error-plugin/blob/6d10af6ee2f3062f2d9ea0bebefc9fa6ceb55d12/src/main/java/io/jenkins/plugins/explain_error/ExplainErrorStep.java#L55 claims that it needs FilePath and Launcher, but it is not using them

[mawinter69]

Now to the UI stuff
Please take a look at https://weekly.ci.jenkins.io/design-library/ how to style things in Jenkins. The style of the buttons and the div is not in sync with common Jenkins styling. There are also useful thinks to show notifications

• Due to hard coded colors it doesn't work well with dark theme plugin:

• The buttons on the console page are shown even when the plugin is not properly configured or disabled. I think you should include the javascript in the footer only when the plugin is actually enabled and properly configured.
• when Jenkins is not running in root context (e.g. when you run it with mvn hpi:run) the crumb fetching doesn't work
• using XMLHttpRequest is not really state of the art. You should use the fetch api that all modern browser support. This also makes it easy to use the crumb without doing an api call

      fetch(url, {
        method: "post",
        headers: crumb.wrap({
          "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
        }),
        body: ...
      }).then((rsp) => {
  }
) 

• The Test Endpoint looks not really helpful. It just proves that you implemented it properly. It adds no value

• Similarly the Diagnostics button is not useful for regular users. It is also exposing configuration internals like the api url. And admins can always look in the global configuration.

• https://github.com/shenxianpeng/explain-error-plugin/blob/e73373318b7fbf7f2c2df79639807e36354c5820/src/main/webapp/js/explain-error-footer.js#L19 I think you should be able to style everything with the css classes that Jenkins itself defines. And if you still need to define some css, you should put in in a separate css file and add the loading to the footer.jelly

• https://github.com/shenxianpeng/explain-error-plugin/blob/e73373318b7fbf7f2c2df79639807e36354c5820/src/main/webapp/js/explain-error-footer.js#L9 will inject the buttons also to the consoleFull url (when the log is longer). But later you assume that the url ends with console so the basePath will be wrong

• In general I don't think using text images like ✅ is the right thing.

• https://github.com/shenxianpeng/explain-error-plugin/blob/72038c0bbb8187d13c6541f23666a3fb00541111/src/main/webapp/js/explain-error-footer.js#L154 When errors occurs maybe using a notification is also an approach

• https://github.com/shenxianpeng/explain-error-plugin/blob/92685abec21ffb507d1791414945cf43bc5d024f/src/main/webapp/js/explain-error-footer.js#L2 too much logging also here in javascript

• https://github.com/shenxianpeng/explain-error-plugin/blob/92685abec21ffb507d1791414945cf43bc5d024f/src/main/resources/io/jenkins/plugins/explain_error/ExplainErrorPlugin/GlobalConfigurationImpl/config.jelly#L25 I think the div that explains what the button is doing is not really needed. The button title is more or less self explanatory. And on large screens the test is to the left but the button on the far right. Unfortunately it is not possible to define a tooltip in f:validateButton

• https://github.com/shenxianpeng/explain-error-plugin/blob/92685abec21ffb507d1791414945cf43bc5d024f/src/main/resources/io/jenkins/plugins/explain_error/ErrorExplanationAction/index.jelly#L11 This should probably be l:card, same for line 16

• https://github.com/shenxianpeng/explain-error-plugin/blob/92685abec21ffb507d1791414945cf43bc5d024f/src/main/resources/io/jenkins/plugins/explain_error/ErrorExplanationAction/index.jelly#L7 define margin as described here: https://weekly.ci.jenkins.io/design-library/spacing/

• https://github.com/shenxianpeng/explain-error-plugin/blob/92685abec21ffb507d1791414945cf43bc5d024f/src/main/webapp/js/explain-error-footer.js#L104
  The approach to read the output from the html is probably error prone. Also it means that you need to send the log back to Jenkins via a form like request. By default Jenkins set a size limit of 200k for the underlying jetty, so if the log exceeds that the request might fail. So instead of sending the output you could use run#getLog() at https://github.com/shenxianpeng/explain-error-plugin/blob/72038c0bbb8187d13c6541f23666a3fb00541111/src/main/java/io/jenkins/plugins/explain_error/ConsoleExplainErrorAction.java#L53. You could also think of having input fields for number of lines and the log pattern at that place.

You include the response from AI directly in the html with innerHTML. I don't know for sure but I could imagine that it is possible with a proper error log to make the AI generate a response that contains malicious code.