[JENKINS-72825] Provide support for advanced action filtering

I am using the forensics-api-plugin as part of the coverage-plugin for getting diffs. To determine the reference build, I call

discoverReferenceBuild()

in my pipeline.

Doing so revealed that sometimes I would not get diffs. The reason seems to be that coverage can be disabled on a per-build basis in my case, thus the reference build sometimes does not contain any coverage data.

For this reason, I would like to see support for some reference build filtering options, especially by action class and action ID.

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Originally reported by stefan6419846, imported from: Provide support for advanced action filtering

• assignee: drulli
  
• status: Open
  
• priority: Minor
  
• component(s): coverage-plugin, forensics-api-plugin
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 0
  
• watchers: 2
  
• imported: 20260107-220949
  

Raw content of original issue

I am using the forensics-api-plugin as part of the coverage-plugin for getting diffs. To determine the reference build, I call 



discoverReferenceBuild()





in my pipeline.


Doing so revealed that sometimes I would not get diffs. The reason seems to be that coverage can be disabled on a per-build basis in my case, thus the reference build sometimes does not contain any coverage data.


For this reason, I would like to see support for some reference build filtering options, especially by action class and action ID.