I’m trying to implement readonly workspaces on one of our servers, which is running 2016.2. Readonly workspaces were introduced in 2015.2, so as expected, I can create them manually. However, if I go through the plugin, the workspace type is blank. I’ve uncovered this is because of a couple of if statements that restrict setting workspace type to server versions 2017.1 or later:

In src\main\java\org\jenkinsci\plugins\p4\workspace\ManualWorkspaceImpl.java

(Line 112)

if (connection.getServerVersionNumber() >= 20171) {

       WorkspaceSpecType type = parseClientType(getSpec().getType());

       implClient.setType(type.getId());

}

[...]

(Line 149)

if (connection.getServerVersionNumber() >= 20171) {

       WorkspaceSpecType type = parseClientType(getSpec().getType());

       [...]

}

I created a custom version of the plugin that replaces 20171 in both if statements with 20162, and everything works as expected – workspaces created through the plugin are correctly set as ‘READONLY’.

The changes were added in this commit: https://github.com/jenkinsci/p4-plugin/commit/91e3a3c8284d2bb84061f1afe2d16f63aeb95ee7 for JENKINS-39753