Upload artifacts to Nexus without Maven

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I have a non-Java project that produces a versioned build artifact  and I want to upload this to a Nexus repository  Because the project isn t Java  it doesn t use Maven for builds  And I d rather not introduce Maven POM files just to get files into Nexus   The links on blogs to the Nexus REST API all end up at a sign-in wall  with no  create user  link that I can see   So  what s the best  or any reasonable  way to upload build artifacts to a Nexus repository without Maven   bash   curl  would be great  or even a Python script

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You can also use the direct deploy method using curl. You don't need a pom for your file for it but it will not be generated as well so if you want one, you will have to upload it separately.

Here is the command:

version=1.2.3
artefact="myartefact"
repoId=yourrepository
groupId=org.myorg
REPO_URL=http://localhost:8081/nexus

curl -u nexususername:nexuspassword --upload-file filename.tgz $REPO_URL/content/repositories/$repoId/$groupId/$artefact/$version/$artefact-$version.tgz

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In ruby https   github com RiotGames nexus cli A CLI wrapper around Sonatype Nexus REST calls   Usage Example   nexus-cli push artifact com mycompany artifacts myartifact tgz 1 0 0   path to file to push myartifact tgz   Configuration is done via the  nexus cli file   url              http   my-nexus-server nexus   repository       my-repository-id  username         username  password         password

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The calls that you need to make against Nexus are REST api calls     The maven-nexus-plugin is a Maven plugin that you can use to make these calls   You could create a dummy pom with the necessary properties and make those calls through the Maven plugin   Something like   mvn -DserverAuthId sonatype-nexus-staging -Dauto true nexus staging-close   Assumed things    You have defined a server in your    m2 settings xml named sonatype-nexus-staging with your sonatype user and password set up - you will probably already have done this if you are deploying snapshots   But you can find more info here    Your local settings xml includes the nexus plugins as specified here  The pom xml sitting in your current directory has the correct Maven coordinates in its definition   If not  you can specify the groupId  artifactId  and version on the command line  The -Dauto true will turn off the interactive prompts so you can script this    Ultimately  all this is doing is creating REST calls into Nexus   There is a full Nexus REST api but I have had little luck finding documentation for it that s not behind a paywall   You can turn on the debug mode for the plugin above and figure it out however by using -Dnexus verboseDebug true -X   You could also theoretically go into the UI  turn on the Firebug Net panel  and watch for  service POSTs and deduce a path there as well

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You can ABSOLUTELY do this without using anything MAVEN related  I personally use the NING HttpClient  v1 8 16  to support java6    For whatever reason  Sonatype makes it incredibly difficulty to figure out what the correct URLs  headers  and payloads are supposed to be  and I had to sniff the traffic and guess    There are some barely useful blogs documentation there  however it is either irrelevant to oss sonatype org  or it s XML based  and I found out it doesn t even work   Crap documentation on their part  IMHO  and hopefully future seekers can find this answer useful  Many thanks to https   stackoverflow com a 33414423 2101812 for their post  as it helped a lot   If you release somewhere other than oss sonatype org  just replace it with whatever the correct host is   Here is the  CC0 licensed  code I wrote to accomplish this  Where profile is your sonatype nexus profileID  such as 4364f3bbaf163  and repo  such as comdorkbox-1003  are parsed from the response when you upload your initial POM Jar   Close repo          Closes the repo and  the server  will verify everything is correct      throws IOException     private static String closeRepo final String authInfo  final String profile  final String repo  final String nameAndVersion  throws IOException        String repoInfo      data    stagedRepositoryId       repo       description   Closing     nameAndVersion              RequestBuilder builder   new RequestBuilder  POST        Request request   builder setUrl  https   oss sonatype org service local staging profiles     profile     finish                                 addHeader  Content-Type    application json                                 addHeader  Authorization    Basic     authInfo                                 setBody repoInfo getBytes OS UTF 8                                  build         return sendHttpRequest request       Promote repo          Promotes  ie  release  the repo  Make sure to drop when done     throws IOException     private static String promoteRepo final String authInfo  final String profile  final String repo  final String nameAndVersion  throws IOException        String repoInfo      data    stagedRepositoryId       repo       description   Promoting     nameAndVersion              RequestBuilder builder   new RequestBuilder  POST        Request request   builder setUrl  https   oss sonatype org service local staging profiles     profile     promote                         addHeader  Content-Type    application json                         addHeader  Authorization    Basic     authInfo                         setBody repoInfo getBytes OS UTF 8                          build        return sendHttpRequest request       Drop repo          Drops the repo     throws IOException     private static String dropRepo final String authInfo  final String profile  final String repo  final String nameAndVersion  throws IOException        String repoInfo      data    stagedRepositoryId       repo       description   Dropping     nameAndVersion              RequestBuilder builder   new RequestBuilder  POST        Request request   builder setUrl  https   oss sonatype org service local staging profiles     profile     drop                         addHeader  Content-Type    application json                         addHeader  Authorization    Basic     authInfo                         setBody repoInfo getBytes OS UTF 8                          build         return sendHttpRequest request       Delete signature turds          Deletes the extra  asc md5 and  asc sh1  turds  that show-up when you upload the signature file  And yes   turds  is from sonatype    themselves  See  https   issues sonatype org browse NEXUS-4906     throws IOException     private static void deleteSignatureTurds final String authInfo  final String repo  final String groupId asPath  final String name                            final String version  final File signatureFile                  throws IOException        String delURL    https   oss sonatype org service local repositories     repo     content                         groupId asPath         name         version         signatureFile getName         RequestBuilder builder      Request request       builder   new RequestBuilder  DELETE        request   builder setUrl delURL     sha1                         addHeader  Authorization    Basic     authInfo                        build        sendHttpRequest request        builder   new RequestBuilder  DELETE        request   builder setUrl delURL     md5                         addHeader  Authorization    Basic     authInfo                        build        sendHttpRequest request       File uploads       public     String upload final File file  final String extension  String classification  throws IOException            final RequestBuilder builder   new RequestBuilder  POST            final RequestBuilder requestBuilder   builder setUrl uploadURL           requestBuilder addHeader  Authorization    Basic     authInfo                          addBodyPart new StringPart  r   repo                          addBodyPart new StringPart  g   groupId                          addBodyPart new StringPart  a   name                          addBodyPart new StringPart  v   version                          addBodyPart new StringPart  p    jar                           addBodyPart new StringPart  e   extension                          addBodyPart new StringPart  desc   description              if  classification    null                requestBuilder addBodyPart new StringPart  c   classification                       requestBuilder addBodyPart new FilePart  file   file            final Request request   requestBuilder build             return sendHttpRequest request           EDIT1   How to get the activity status for a repo         Gets the activity information for a repo  If there is a failure during verification finish -- this will provide what it was      throws IOException     private static String activityForRepo final String authInfo  final String repo  throws IOException        RequestBuilder builder   new RequestBuilder  GET        Request request   builder setUrl  https   oss sonatype org service local staging repository     repo     activity                                 addHeader  Content-Type    application json                                 addHeader  Authorization    Basic     authInfo                                 build         return sendHttpRequest request

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If you need a convenient command line interface or python API  look at repositorytools  Using it  you can upload artifact to nexus with command  artifact upload foo-1 2 3 ext releases com fooware   To make it work  you will also need to set some environment variables  export REPOSITORY URL https   repo example com export REPOSITORY USER admin export REPOSITORY PASSWORD mysecretpassword

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You can manually upload the artifact s by clicking on upload artifacts button in the Nexus server and provide the necessary GAV properties for uploading it s generally the file structure for storing the artifact

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for those who need it in Java  using apache httpcomponents 4 0    public class PostFile       protected HttpPost httppost       protected MultipartEntity mpEntity       protected File filePath       public PostFile final String fullUrl  final String filePath           this httppost   new HttpPost fullUrl           this filePath   new File filePath                   this mpEntity   new MultipartEntity               public void authenticate String user  String password           String encoding   new String Base64 encodeBase64  user     password  getBytes              httppost setHeader  Authorization    Basic     encoding             private void addParts   throws UnsupportedEncodingException          mpEntity addPart  r   new StringBody  repository id             mpEntity addPart  g   new StringBody  group id             mpEntity addPart  a   new StringBody  artifact id             mpEntity addPart  v   new StringBody  version             mpEntity addPart  p   new StringBody  packaging             mpEntity addPart  e   new StringBody  extension              mpEntity addPart  file   new FileBody this filePath                public String post   throws ClientProtocolException  IOException           HttpClient httpclient   new DefaultHttpClient            httpclient getParams   setParameter CoreProtocolPNames PROTOCOL VERSION  HttpVersion HTTP 1 1           addParts            httppost setEntity mpEntity           HttpResponse response   httpclient execute httppost            System out println  executing request     httppost getRequestLine             System out println httppost getEntity   getContentLength              HttpEntity resEntity   response getEntity             String statusLine   response getStatusLine   toString            System out println statusLine           if  resEntity    null                System out println EntityUtils toString resEntity                      if  resEntity    null                resEntity consumeContent                      return statusLine

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No need to use these commands    you can directly use the nexus web Interface in order to upload your JAR using GAV parameters     So it is very simple

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Using 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   You can see what the parameters mean here  https   support sonatype com entries 22189106-How-can-I-programatically-upload-an-artifact-into-Nexus-  To make the permissions for this work  I created a new role in the admin GUI and I added two privileges to that role  Artifact Download and Artifact Upload  The standard  Repo  All Maven Repositories  Full Control  -role is not enough  You won t find this in the REST API documentation that comes bundled with the Nexus server  so these parameters might change in the future   On a Sonatype JIRA issue  it was mentioned that they  are going to overhaul the REST API  and the way it s documentation is generated  in an upcoming release  most likely later this year

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Have you considering using the Maven command-line to upload files   mvn deploy deploy-file       -Durl  REPO URL       -DrepositoryId  REPO ID       -DgroupId org myorg       -DartifactId myproj       -Dversion 1 2 3        -Dpackaging zip       -Dfile myproj zip   This will automatically generate the Maven POM for the artifact    Update  The following Sonatype article states that the  deploy-file  maven plugin is the easiest solution  but it also provides some examples using curl   https   support sonatype com entries 22189106-How-can-I-programatically-upload-an-artifact-into-Nexus-

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You can use curl instead   version 1 2 3 artifact  artifact  repoId repositoryId groupId org myorg REPO URL http   localhost 8081 nexus  curl -u username password --upload-file filename tgz  REPO URL content repositories  repoId  groupId  artefact  version  artifact- version tgz

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Adam Vandenberg For Java code to POST to Nexus  https   github com manbalagan nexusuploader  public class NexusRepository implements RepoTargetFactory        String DIRECTORY KEY   raw directory       String ASSET KEY   raw asset1       String FILENAME KEY   raw asset1 filename        String repoUrl      String userName      String password        Override     public void setRepoConfigurations String repoUrl  String userName  String password            this repoUrl   repoUrl          this userName   userName          this password   password             public String pushToRepository             HttpClient httpclient   HttpClientBuilder create   build            HttpPost postRequest   new HttpPost repoUrl            String auth   userName         password          byte   encodedAuth   Base64 encodeBase64                  auth getBytes StandardCharsets ISO 8859 1            String authHeader    Basic     new String encodedAuth           postRequest setHeader HttpHeaders AUTHORIZATION  authHeader           try                       byte   packageBytes    Hello  This is my file content  getBytes                MultipartEntityBuilder multipartEntityBuilder   MultipartEntityBuilder create                InputStream packageStream   new ByteArrayInputStream packageBytes               InputStreamBody inputStreamBody   new InputStreamBody packageStream  ContentType APPLICATION OCTET STREAM               multipartEntityBuilder addPart DIRECTORY KEY  new StringBody  DIRECTORY                 multipartEntityBuilder addPart FILENAME KEY  new StringBody  MyFile txt                 multipartEntityBuilder addPart ASSET KEY  inputStreamBody               HttpEntity entity   multipartEntityBuilder build                postRequest setEntity entity                  HttpResponse response   httpclient execute postRequest                if  response    null                                System out println response getStatusLine   getStatusCode                                     catch  Exception ex                        ex printStackTrace                       return null

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For recent versions of Nexus OSS     3 9 0   https   support sonatype com hc en-us articles 115006744008-How-can-I-programmatically-upload-files-into-Nexus-3-  Example for versions 3 9 0 to 3 13 0   curl -D - -u user pass -X POST  https   nexus domain nexus service rest beta components repository somerepo  -H  accept  application json  -H  Content-Type  multipart form-data  -F  raw directory  test   -F  raw asset1  test txt type application json  -F  raw asset1 filename test txt

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