Publishing to Artifactory using Jenkins

Question

I am trying to use the Generic Jenkins-Artifactory plugin to deploy the contents of the Jenkins build workspace into Artifactory. This seems to be somewhat fine using the following wildcards

Web\*.msi=>Testing\Web
Web\DeploymentSettings\*.xml=>Testing\Web\DeploymentSettings
Database\Scripts\**=>Testing\Database

However, when it comes to moving the contents of 'Database\\Scripts' from the Jenkins workspace, empty folders under 'Database\\Scripts' do not get copied into Artifactory. Non-empty folders however are copied successfully. It is important that I maintain the directory integrity/structure so it's a must that I copy these across.

I have considered placing empty text files in the empty directories to have them copy over successfully but I don't want to "pollute" the package.

Please help :-)

Thanks!

Answer 1

Looks like there is no workaround -other than dummy files in the directories. I see some bugs in Jenkins releated to handling empty directories. JENKINS-7260 Clone workspace doesn't copy empty directories when cloning entire workspace JENKINS-20654Empty folders are not copied to the slave

Could you check if answer posted in Hudson: Copy artifact from master to slave fails helps?