Deploy SNAPSHOT version - get the (timestamped) version number

Question

If I deploy an artifact to a Maven repository with version number 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT, it will get an internal version number of the form 1.0.0-21321323-2 (timestamp and number). How can I find out this version number?

Answer 1

When deploying an artifact to Artifactory you get a JSON response which includes the URI of the deployed artifact. You can use that to get the timestamp version. For example:

{
  "repo" : "libs-snapshot-local",
  "path" : "/org/jfrog/buildinfo/build-info-extractor-maven3/2.5.4-SNAPSHOT/build-info-extractor-maven3-2.5.4-20160205.203000-1.jar",
  "created" : "2016-02-05T22:30:00.624+02:00",
  "createdBy" : "admin",
  "downloadUri" : "http://localhost:8081/artifactory/libs-snapshot-local/org/jfrog/buildinfo/build-info-extractor-maven3/2.5.4-SNAPSHOT/build-info-extractor-maven3-2.5.4-20160205.203000-1.jar",
  "mimeType" : "application/java-archive",
  "size" : "67966",
  "checksums" : {
    "sha1" : "f608440d5aadc64a5ef50320a385aeae49abd58a",
    "md5" : "a844a8ab8226ff25854127480f3cfeac"
  },
  "originalChecksums" : {
  },
  "uri" : "http://localhost:8081/artifactory/libs-snapshot-local/org/jfrog/buildinfo/build-info-extractor-maven3/2.5.4-SNAPSHOT/build-info-extractor-maven3-2.5.4-20160205.203000-1.jar"
}

Another option is using the latest version search REST API which allows searching for the latest artifact version by groupId and artifactId. For example:

$ curl -uadmin:password "http://localhost:8081/artifactory/api/search/latestVersion?g=org.jfrog.buildinfo&a=build-info-extractor-maven3&v=2.5.4-SNAPSHOT&repos=libs-snapshot-local"

2.5.4-20160205.203000-1