How can I can use the Sonatype REST Api to fetch the build with the highest version (latest temporal build)?
http://MY_REPOSITORY/nexus/service/local/lucene/search?a=ARTIFACT_NAME&v=ARTIFACT_VERSION
Passing a build version as ARTIFACT_VERSION
works. Passing v=LATEST
or v=latest
does NOT return the latest build.
It is not documented that /service/local/lucene/search support "LATEST" as version parameter [link]
The OSS rest api documentation states that /service/local/artifact/maven
[link] (to get the artifact pom file) and /service/local/artifact/maven/content
[link] (to get the actual file content) does support it:
Version of the artifact (Required) Supports resolving of "LATEST",
"RELEASE" and snapshot versions ("1.0-SNAPSHOT") too.
So I think you should use one of them (you will have to supply them also with repositoryId and groupId)
for example:
http://MY_REPOSITORY/nexus/service/local/artifact/maven/content?r=repoId&g=groupName&a=art&v=LATEST
I had the same problem and solved it like this using the lucene search api:
if [[ "${REPO}" == "snapshots" ]]; then
version=$( curl --silent "http://${HOST}/nexus/service/local/lucene/search?g=${GROUP_ID}&a=${ARTIFACT}" | sed -n 's|<latestSnapshot>\(.*\)</latestSnapshot>|\1|p' | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | tail -1 )
else
version=$( curl --silent "http://${HOST}/nexus/service/local/lucene/search?g=${GROUP_ID}&a=${ARTIFACT}" | sed -n 's|<latestRelease>\(.*\)</latestRelease>|\1|p' | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | tail -1 )
fi
curl -o ~/${ARTIFACT}-${VERSION}.zip -L -# "http://${HOST}/nexus/service/local/artifact/maven/redirect?r=${REPO}&g=${GROUP_ID}&a=${ARTIFACT}&e=zip&v=${VERSION}"
Lucene search API also allow keyword search for version:
http://<nexus_repository>/nexus/service/local/lucene/search?a=ARTIFACT_NAME&v=1.0.*
I have Linux OS and I do not have access to REST API, so I used following commands to get the latest version of snapshots from Nexus:
An example snapshots maven-metadata.xml from WSO2 repository:
$ curl -s "http://maven.wso2.org/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/org/wso2/is/wso2is/maven-metadata.xml"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<metadata>
<groupId>org.wso2.is</groupId>
<artifactId>wso2is</artifactId>
<versioning>
<latest>5.3.0-SNAPSHOT</latest>
<release></release>
<versions>
<version>5.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<version>5.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<version>5.3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</versions>
<lastUpdated>20160914062755</lastUpdated>
</versioning>
</metadata>
Extracting from latest XML tag inside maven-metadata.xml:
curl -s "http://maven.wso2.org/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/org/wso2/is/wso2is/maven-metadata.xml" | \
grep "<latest>.*</latest>" | \
sed -e "s#\(.*\)\(<latest>\)\(.*\)\(</latest>\)\(.*\)#\3#g"
Extracting from version XML tag inside maven-metadata.xml:
curl -s "http://maven.wso2.org/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/org/wso2/is/wso2is/maven-metadata.xml" | \
grep "<version>.*</version>" | \
sort | uniq | tail -n1 | \
sed -e "s#\(.*\)\(<version>\)\(.*\)\(</version>\)\(.*\)#\3#g"
The result of both of the commands until today 14 Sep 2016 is:
5.3.0-SNAPSHOT
After trying the REST service with the LATEST
version (and discovering it doesn't always work) I ended up creating this one-liner Linux command for parsing the metadata.xml
file:
wget -O - -o /dev/null https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/brutusin/wava/maven-metadata.xml | grep -Po '(?<=<version>)([0-9\.]+(-SNAPSHOT)?)' | sort --version-sort -r| head -n 1