Reuse artifacts at a later stage in the same Jenkins project - jenkins

Question

I have a Jenkins pipeline whose Build step has an archiveArtifacts command.
After the Build step there is Unit test, Integration test and Deploy.
In Deploy step, I want to use one of the artifacts. I thought I could find it in the same place the Build step generated it, but apparently the archiveArtifacts has deleted them.
As a workaround I can copy the artifact before it is archived, but it doesn't look elegant to me. Is there any better way?

Answer 1

As I understand it, archiveArtifacts is more for saving artifacts for use by something (or someone) after the build has finished. I would recommend looking at using "stash" and "unstash" for transferring files between stages or nodes.
You just go...
stash include: 'globdescribingfiles', name: 'stashnameusedlatertounstash'
and when you want to later retrieve that artifact...
unstash 'stashnameusedlatertounstash'
and the stashed files will be put into the current working directory.
Here's the example of that given in the Jenkinsfile docs (https://jenkins.io/doc/book/pipeline/jenkinsfile/#using-multiple-agents):
pipeline {
agent none
stages {
stage('Build') {
agent any
steps {
checkout scm
sh 'make'
stash includes: '**/target/*.jar', name: 'app'
}
}
stage('Test on Linux') {
agent {
label 'linux'
}
steps {
unstash 'app'
sh 'make check'
}
post {
always {
junit '**/target/*.xml'
}
}
}
stage('Test on Windows') {
agent {
label 'windows'
}
steps {
unstash 'app'
bat 'make check'
}
post {
always {
junit '**/target/*.xml'
}
}
}
}
}