通过REST API，POST将工件发布到Nexus

Question

Not to savvy with Nexus administration....

Open a console to look at the network call when uploading an artifact "by hand". Want to skip using Maven or Ivy to upload to Nexus. Everything query wise goes through ExtJS XHR calls except for the posting of artifact information which shows up in Chrome Developer Tools as a Documents call (assuming this is a form submit issued via ExtJS).

Haven't tried simulating with curl (no idea how multipart forms are handled in curl if possible) but is this the only way to "post" artifacts besides doing a traditional publish from Ivy or Maven? Looks like Nexus has a Java API but would like to remain in the REST HTTP world (hoping for Nexus REST service that basically does the multipart form post with something like apache's HTTPCLIENT).

Answer 1

Use curl:

curl -v \
    -F "r=releases" \
    -F "g=com.acme.widgets" \
    -F "a=widget" \
    -F "v=0.1-1" \
    -F "p=tar.gz" \
    -F "file=@./widget-0.1-1.tar.gz" \
    -u myuser:mypassword \
    http://localhost:8081/nexus/service/local/artifact/maven/content

This will work with non-java dependencies for people not using maven. See my comments on this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19699327/231573 .

Answer 2

Found this response from Sonatype:

• https://getsatisfaction.com/sonatype/topics/how_can_we_upload_artifacts_via_the_rest_api

In a nutshell, it's possible to POST the artifact directly, but what about the other files required for your Maven module? The most important being a POM...

The simplest way to upload a file is to use the deploy-file plugin:

Upload artifacts to Nexus, without Maven

Is there a compelling reasons for not using the Maven client?