Nexus has a REST API that could help http://www.sonatype.com/people/2008/11/searching-with-the-sonatype-nexus-rest-api-groovy/
2009/10/7 Beat Strasser <[email protected]> > Hi > > My task is to fetch the latest snapshot version of a maven artifact. How > can I do this without having to parse the maven-metadata.xml and figuring > out what the latest timestamp is? > > We used to deploy snapshot artifacts with a unique identifier, so the > artifacts URL was fix and I could fetch the snapshot with a simple HTTP GET > command: group/artifact/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/artifact-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar. > An easy and simple solution: I liked this! > > However this solution does not work anymore in maven 3 (we're using > tycho-distribution-3065 to deploy artifacts). As I've understood the > developers correctly, the uniqueVersion parameter is/will be deprecated: > > > http://www.nabble.com/dropping-non-unique-snapshots-in-Maven-3-td25295809.html > > Does Nexus provide a fix URL for an artifacts' latest snapshot version? > > Is there a simple mvn command to fetch the latest snapshot version (without > having to define a pom.xml and use dependency:copy hacks)? > > Does Ivy support the maven repository layout/logic? > > Thanks for your help, > -- > Beat Strasser > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
