How to import from one level above the current package in groovy

I have a very similar issue to what is described here: How to import from one level above the current package in groovy

I don't want to move SharedState to an action/pkg subdirectory. What I want to do is to maintain the following structure:

groovy / action / TestDataHelper
groovy / action2 / TestDataHelper2
groovy / action3 / SharedState

and then gain access to SharedState from both TestDataHelper and TestDataHelper2.

I cannot do that anyhow using package, which I tend to understand is impossible by default. I could use classpath shenanigans instead, but need some guidance on that first.

Thanks for any kind of feedback.

CodePudding user response：

The answer is to use additional class path in the Jenkins job seed job - advanced section in the Build. The path needs to be matching mother directory of the project.

/home/user/mother_dir

The groovy script can be anywhere under /home/user/mother_dir, in my case it's under /home/user/mother_dir/other_dir/script.groovy

Then, I put the classes I would like to import within a package in a /home/user/mother_dir/package_dir. In the groovy script mapped with the job I import package.* and have access to all the necessary classes from the package_dir.