How to checkout Artifactory repo in jenkins workspace

Question

I am new to artifactory just wanted to know if there is a way to checkout artifactory repo similar to git repository so that the content of the artifactory repo is visible in the Jenkins workspace.

For git repo we get options like checkout as a subfolder I want to know if we can do something similar to that for artifactory in Jenkins

Any suggestions

Answer 1

Git is the VCS and Artifactory is a repository manager and I doubt that this cannot be done. Artifactory in Jenkins is used for retrieving/downloading the packages, resolving the dependencies and deploying the build to Artifactory. If my understanding in incorrect, kindly elaborate on the use-case for better. Refer to the below wikis for better understanding,

1. https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/JFROG/Jenkins+Artifactory+Plug-in
2. https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/JFROG/Declarative+Pipeline+Syntax
3. https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/JFROG/Scripted+Pipeline+Syntax
4. https://github.com/jfrog/project-examples/tree/master/jenkins-examples/pipeline-examples/declarative-examples