Hello Chris, I was missing something. I read up on snapshot vs. release naming conventions and realized that just dropping snapshot from the artifact id drops the timestamp. I am good to go now.
Thanks, Greg On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Chris Mylonas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Greg, > > I'm sure there is a way and you'll have to wait for an archiva dev to get > back to you but as an alternative there is the maven-metadata.xml file > which you could parse to get the values. > e.g. > > http://repo.opencsta.org:8080/archiva/repository/snapshots/org/opencsta/client/2.0-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml > Has the details for the client-2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar > > Here are the files in the directory: > http://repo.opencsta.org:8080/archiva/repository/snapshots/org/opencsta/client/2.0-SNAPSHOT/ > and the actual repo view > http://repo.opencsta.org:8080/archiva/browse/org.opencsta/client/2.0-SNAPSHOTif > you can call it that. > > Are you just using bash scripts to do some packaging/deploying/testing? > Maybe just wget that maven-metadata.xml file and grep build number and > timestamp and construct the URL from that? > > HTH, > Chris > > > On 21/02/2012, at 7:54 AM, Greg Foreman wrote: > > > Is there a simple URL for downloading an artifact? I know this URL > returns > > the artifact page: > > > > http://<host>:<port>/archiva/browse/<groupId>/<artifactId>/<version> > > > > But is there a URL for fetching the artifact (WAR file in this case) > > without having to know the associated timestamp extension? Like: > > > > http:// > > > <host>:<port>/archiva/browse/<groupId>/<artifactId>/<version>/<mywebapp>.war > > > > I would like to incorporate a simple wget into my deploy process without > > having to provide the exact timestamp info. > >
