Trigger periodic job in Hudson only if last execution of another job is successful

Question

I have a job NIGHTLY that runs one time each night by a periodical timer.
Now I want to change so that the NIGHTLY job is only run if the last execution of another job FOO in Hudson is successful.

Note:

• Job FOO is run many times each day and is triggered by SCM.
• NIGHTLY should only be run one time per night and at a specific time.

Currently I have another job NIGHTLY_TRIGGER that runs a bash script that access the remote API of job FOO to check if job FOO is successful and if so triggers the NIGHTLY job.

Are there a nicer/cleaner way to do this? (preferable by using some Hudson plugins)

Answer 1

You could check out the Hudson Join Plugin which is made for this kind of scenario (wait for the conclusion of a job before executing another one).
The end result wouldn't be much different from what you are already doing, but this would be neatly parameterized:

So you would still have to check the status of FOO job, but at least you would check it right after FOO job completion.