I have a product for which I store software builds in Artifactory.
I name the software artifacts like this, so it is possible to se what a downloaded file contains: system-pcm33-base-v0.0.0.0_65_ga03970a.raucb
Thus it is also possible to download directly via an URL, not using jfrog
https://artifactory.deif.com/ui/native/amc-sw/pcm33/master/system-pcm33-base-v0.0.0.0_65_ga03970a.raucb
Now I would like to make a quick way to download the latest master build. To do this I have in my build made a symlink
system-pcm33-base.raucb -> system-pcm33-base-v0.0.0.0_65_ga03970a.raucb
I can also push this symlink to artifactory, but it only works from the GUI and via jfrog. I do not get this symlink as I had hoped:
https://artifactory.deif.com/ui/native/amc-sw/pcm33/master/system-pcm33-base.raucb
Is there a way to do this?
It is of course possible to upload the file twice under two different names, and thus update system-pcm33-base.raucb on every build. But that is a bit more heavy.
Artifactory doesn't handle symbolic links as in the Linux file system.
Based on the described use case, you can upload the file twice (as suggested) - first with the actual version, second as the latest. The important part is - when you upload for the 2nd time, as the latest, use Checksum Deploy.
Artifactory has a checksum based storage, which means that every file is actually stored once, even if it is uploaded to different target paths. In order to tell Artifactory to create/update a path without actually sending the binary, you can send the checksum of the binary, and Artifactory will link the path to the binary with that checksum. This operation is quite cheap.
Another possible approach is to define and use a custom Repository Layout. This way, in order to download the latest version of the file, you can use the [RELEASE] placeholder. The actual latest version ill be automatically resolved by the extracted version value based on the layout.
See also:
How to create simple versioning custom layout in Artifactory
How to find the latest artifact version based on layout?
Thanks to yinon explaining that the checksum is used, I found this simple solution
jf rt copy --flat amc-sw/pcm33/master/system-pcm33-base-v0.0.0.0_65_ga03970a.raucb amc-sw/pcm33/master/system-pcm33-base.raucb
This copies ALL the properties, but then a download query will return two files, so a property has to be changed
jf rt sp amc-sw/pcm33/master/system-pcm33-base.raucb artifact=last_bsp
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I'm a new Artifactory user. My company just setup Artifactory v6.5.2 and I'm looking to use is for managing software deployed for our production team. What I need is a download link that will get documented in our product management system that directly points to the exact file that Software deployed for Production to use. I was anticipating this would look like this:
https://artifactory.mycompany.com/artifactory/myrepo/mymodule/mypkgfile_v1_b30b890becfb4a02510ed12a7283c676.tgz
I'm not seeing that Artifactory can do this for me. What I see is I can do this:
http://artifactory.mycompany.com/artifactory/myrepo/mymodule/mypkgfile_v1.tgz
However if another artifact is deployed with the same name, it's not reflected in the download link. This means that the link could return different results.
Am I missing something or am I asking Artifactory do something it's not intended to do?
Artifactory returns the URL based on on the filename and the path (as any web server would do). Here are two options to achieve what you need:
Name the artifacts uniquely (timestamps are the simplest). Instead of naming the artifact mypkgfile_v1.tgz, name it mypkgfile_v1-1553038888.tgz (I used the Unix Epoch time, but everything unique enough will do).
This one is more evolved but doesn't require you to change the naming scheme.
First, configure a custom repository layout to match your versioning.
Once you've done that, every time you deploy an artifact, attach a unique identifier to the artifact as property during deployment (using matrix params, for example), deploying your artifact as mypkgfile_v1;timestamp=1553038888.
On the revrieval, use the token for the latest release together with the timestamp you need as a matrix param:mypkgfile_v[RELEASE];timestamp=1553038888
I'm trying to copy the latest artifact from one path to another using Artifactory API.
POST /api/copy/{srcRepoKey}/{srcFilePath}?to=/{targetRepoKey}/{targetFilePath}[&dry=1][&suppressLayouts=0/1(default)][&failFast=0/1]
Let's say I have a few RPMs named: artifact-1.0-1.rpm, artifact-1.0-2.rpm and artifact-1.0-3.rpm.
How to automatically copy the third artifact ?
With the next release of Jfrog's CLI, planned in a couple of weeks, you'll be able to use SORT and LIMIT in the COPY command.
This will allow you to fetch only the latest item\artifact by SORTing by date and LIMITing to the result set to 1.
For now, you can use 2 sequential CURL commands to try and accomplish what you're after:
First use an AQL SEARCH with you're SORT and LIMIT to retrieve the relevant item's path, and then use your COPY command with that path.
Note: the CLI's SORT and LIMIT feature has already been checked in to the CLI's dev branch, so if you wish to use a snapshot you can "download and build" the dev branch from github, and then test if the solution suites you.
I doubt that you can automatically copy all these artifacts in one statement. You can copy the folder but no regex or pattern can defined in copy command.
I realize that the Artifactory support team reads these SO posts, so my question is either a regular question or a feature request.
I want to programmatically update various artifacts and when my operations complete (copies, writes, moves, deletes), create an alias/symlink to the new/updated artifact URLs.
For example, I would like to have a "latest" link which always points to the latest build for a number of different artifacts: Java, yum, Python and generic binaries, that is, native executables that do not use pypy/Maven/yum toolsets.
I don't see a way to do this and if that is the case, I'd like to request this feature in a new version of Artifactory.
I have a website on which I have published several of my applications.
Right now I have to update it each time one of the applications is updated.
The applications themselves check for updates so the user only visits the website if they don't have a previous version installed.
I would like to make it easier for me by creating a single executable that when downloaded and executed, will check with the database which version is the most recent and then download that one and run that setup.
Now I can make a downloader for each application, but I rather make something more universal with a parameter or argument as the difference.
For the download the 'know' which database to check for the most recent version, I need to pass on the data to the downloader.
My first thought was putting that in a XML file, so I only have to generate different xml files for each application, but then it wouldn't be a single executable anymore.
My second thought was using commandline arguments like: downloader.exe databasename
But how would I do that when the file is downloaded?
Would a link like: "https://my.website.com/downloader.exe databasename" work?
How could I best do this?
rg.
Eric
Problem description:
I have multiple alfresco installations (development, testing, production) of one project.
I need to copy files under Data Dictionary folder (Scripts, Templates, Web Scripts) from one to another in one direction (development -> testing -> production).
Current solution:
I copy files manually via webdav, which is annoying and unreliable (I can forget to copy some.).
Desired solution:
I'd like to have I tool, which will copy changed files at my command, what they are ready for the next step. I had an idea, that it could internally use a Git repository with branches for each installation, being able to fetch the files from devel and push the files to testing and production. This way (with Git) it could also support reverting changes.
It looks like a quite common problem, but I wasn't able to google something about it, so I'm asking here. Does such a tool exist or is there a better way of managing multiple repositories?
If you have a brand new installation of your development/testing/production Alfresco instances, you could simply migrate alf_data dir content, that contains by default db, indexes, content-store, backup files. If you need, you could migrate the "shared" folder too, or at least some files from the shared folder as could be some Alfresco customization (custom scripts or similar). Here is the link that helps with migration steps:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/System_Migration
Otherwise, if you need only to move a folder from Data Dictionary, or a set of documents, you could use ACP in order to achieve that. Here is the wiki for doing this: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Export_and_Import
You could do this via FTP. When your want to deploy new changes, you can go with manual client like FileZila to download changes from Dev, then upload them to test.
But you can also automate FTP, so that it can run a scheduled check if there are new things on, say, dev and push them to test.
If you use Git for source control, you could also do this via git-ftp. Hold a copy of Data Dictionary in your source folder, then add some sort of pre-commit check, which will see if you changed any of those files. If you did, on commit it will push the change to dev and test.
I think Relication service AF is suitable for you.
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Community_3.4.a#Replication