> -----Original Message----- > From: Laird Nelson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 8:46 PM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Re: How to script the downloading of the latest snapshot of an > artifact? > > Have a look at this: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7911620/using-the-nexus-rest-api-to-get- > latest-artifact-version-for-given-groupid-artfic > > Basically unless you want the pain of digging into yet another undocumented > overly verbose alpha API to do this programmatically, use the (documented, > stable, reasonably intuitive) Nexus REST API to do it for you.
Thanks. For what we're doing, this is the best solution. If we later want to implement build-based distribution, we might look at the other possibilities. > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:09 PM, KARR, DAVID <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Someone I work with needs to build an automated solution to get the latest > > version of a snapshot jar from our nexus server. They've tried the > > simplistic "wget/curl" solution, but that requires hardcoding the verbose > > snapshot jar url. What are cleaner ways to do this? > > > > This could be automated either from the "destination" end or from the > > "source" end. We have an automated build that produces the artifact he > > needs, so I could script something on our build server that just scps the > > artifact to a remote server (this would be the "source" end). > > Alternatively, we would do something on the destination end that downloads > > the artifact. > > > > However it works, we need a way to just specify the artifact coordinates, > > not the verbose snapshot jar path. > > > > Is this something that the Wagon plugin can do? > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > -- > http://about.me/lairdnelson
