How to change pattern of artifact in ivy:publish? - ant

I am publishing jar file in nexus using ivy:publish.
My jar file name is shared.project.mainline.jar.
Providing this default pattern
<artifacts pattern="${build.dir}/lib/[artifact].[ext]"/>
But getting below error while publishing
impossible to publish artifacts for shared#project;mainline:
java.io.IOException: missing artifact
shared#project;mainline!project.jar
So how can I change default pattern ?

If running ivy through ant, add " artifactspattern="pattern" " to wherever you are running publish.
If that doesn't work, perhaps it is looking in the right place, but not finding the correct jar.
If so, are you defining the artifact correctly in your ivy file? What does your ivy file look like?
You will want to define the artifact specifically in the ivy file for the module
<artifact *name="artifactname"* type="jar" ext="jar" />
Make sure the name attribute is correctly set

Related

How to provide name of ivy.xml on command line

I have a little sandbox that I use to publish not-invented-here artifacts to our artifact repository. It has a common build.xml file and a common ivysettings.xml.
I would like to be able to pass the name of the ivy.xml file so I can have exactly one, uniquely-named someartifact-ivy.xml file per artifact I intend to publish.
I tried the following:
#/bin/sh
ant publish -Divy.settings.file=ivy-external-ivysettings.xml -Divy.dep.file=someartifact-ivy.xml
Property -Divy.settings.file=ivy-external-ivysettings.xml succeeds in causing ivy to use my ivy-external-ivysettings.xml file.
However, ivy seems to ignore property -Divy.dep.file=someartifact-ivy.xml and goes looking for ivy.xml instead.
The docs suggest to me that my approach should work, as does an upvoted (currently x6) answer to a similar question.

Ant+Ivy Jar Version

When I publish my artifact (some api jar), how do I specify version ?
is it revision attribute ? I want to have client-lib-1.0.jar
<ivy-module>
<info organisation="the.org" module="client-lib" revision ="1.0">
<info>
</ivy-module>
Firstly, you need to include a publications section, telling ivy what arifacts you are publishing as a module. Ivy is very flexible and quite capable of publishing modules with multiple files and/or types.
<publications>
<artifact name="client-lib" type="jar"/>
<artifact name="client-lib" type="jar" e:classifier="source"/>
<artifact name="client-lib" type="jat" e:classifier="javadocs"/>
</publications>
Secondly (and the answer to your question) the revision number of the published ivy file is decided at publish time. It gets set by the special "pubrevision" attribute of the publish task. Ivy will search the artifact pattern for the file(s) listed in the ivy file to be published.
<ivy:publish resolver="my-deploy" pubrevision="1.0">
<artifacts pattern="${build.dir}/[artifact](-[classifier]).[ext]"/>
</ivy:publish>
Under the hood a new ivy file is being generated and uploaded alongside the module's file.
How the file is stored in the repository is a matter decided by ivy resolver.
An issue you're likely to encounter is that few people host an Ivy repository these days. Instead Maven is the most common standard.
The following detailed detailed example(s) describes how this process works including the messy POM generation stuff (cause Maven doesn't understand ivy files):
how to publish 3rdparty artifacts with ivy and nexus
Convert ivy.xml to pom.xml

Trying to publish directory tree and auxiliary properties file with apache ivy, with later complex retrieval

I'm still struggling with figuring out how to integrate Apache Ivy into my somewhat complex Ant build.
If it matters, I'm using ATG Dynamo, which contributes most of the mess I'm trying to deal with.
The result of a build of a module is a "build" directory, with several subdirectories. I need to publish the entire contents of the "build" directory, along with a properties file (env/default.properties) that is not produced by the build, but one property in that file is needed when later retrieving this artifact, as it indicates the absolute path (relative to another property setting) where the contents of the "build" directory need to be installed.
The entire build will have several similarly structured modules. I'm pretty sure the target that does the "ivy:publish" can be defined in a "base" build script that all the module build scripts import.
I imagine the "ivy.xml" for each module would have a "publications" element that specifies the two (?) pieces that are being published, being the "build" directory and the "env/default.properties" file. I've never seen an example that publishes a directory, is that possible? If not, then I would guess that I'd have to specify more processing and detail in the "ivy:publish" target, such that I would first zip up the "build" directory and the "env/default.properties" file both into a zip file and publish that as the single artifact. Is this more likely?
It is quite new in Ivy, and it is not released yet, but there is a concept of "packaging" which can handle directories.
See the official documentation: http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/trunk/concept.html#packaging
With this feature, Ivy can handle by itself the unzipping of a folder. On the publish part, you are on your own, you'll have to make a zip yourself. On the retrieve part, Ivy will unzip the folder in the cache. So you will still have to do some process to copy it at the proper place.
It has not been tested, but probably you can go even further by implementing a custom unpacking algorithm, which will do the unpacking at the proper place. You'll have to implement a class which extends org.apache.ivy.core.pack.ArchivePacking, and declare it in your ivysettings.xml, like this:
<ivysetting>
<classpath file="${ivy.settings.dir}/custom-packing.jar"/>
<typedef name="customPacking" classname="com.acme.ivy.CustomPacking" />
<customPacking />
</ivysettings>
And then in your ivy.xml, declare your artifact as packaged by your custom packaging name:
<ivy-module version="1.0">
...
<publications>
<artifact name="mydistrib" type="distrib" ext=".zip" packaging="my-custom-packaging" />
</publications>
</ivy-module>

In Ivy what does impossible to publish artifacts FileNotFoundException Error Mean?

I'm working within a large build system that uses Ant/Ivy. I try to use a predefined ant task that uses ivy:publish ant task and get this error:
impossible to publish artifacts for com.company.project1.proj1#MySupportJar;working#server1: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /path_to/ivy-repository/com.company.project1.proj1/MySupportJar/5.1.3.part/MySupportJar-5.1.3.jar (No such file or directory)
The directory in the error message exists up to the version number part (5.1.3.part).
I am new to Ivy but think I get the basics of how it works. I can not find much on the exact meaning of this error so if someone could help or point me to an explanation I think I could resolve the issue from there.
Ant target
<target name="publish-shared" depends="ivyInit, resolve"
description="Publish to the shared repository">
<ivy:publish pubrevision="5.1.3"
resolver="shared"
pubdate="${timestamp}"
forcedeliver="true"
update="true"
conf="distro, docs">
<artifacts pattern="dist/[artifact].[ext]"/>
</ivy:publish>
</target>
Ivy file snippet
<publications>
<artifact name="MySupportJar" type="jar" conf="distro" />
<artifact name="MySupportJar-source" type="source" ext="jar" conf="docs" />
</publications>
Thanks.
Thanks for all the suggestions. Turns out to be a simple solution that I was not looking for.
The problem was permissions at /path_to/ivy-repository/com.company.project1. I did not have write permission. The .part file is a temporary file written by Ivy. Ivy could not write the temporary file so when it got to reading the file it failed to find it.
I'm answering this so that it might help someone later.
Thanks.
I'm fairly new to Ant with Ivy too. What I've done is combine a local Maven repository (Artifactory), with Jenkins as a continuous integration server. When we build a jar, I also produce the Maven pom.xml with it. Then, I use the mvn deploy:file command to deploy the desired build to our Maven repository.
The developer manually deploys the jar to our Maven repository via the Promoted Build plugin to Jenkins. The developer selects the build to deploy to Maven, and then pretty much presses a button, and that build will be deployed.
I actually produce two pomswith each build. One ispom.xmland the other ispom-snapshot.xml`. We deploy the snapshot with each build, so other developers can use the latest jar instead of the officially deployed one. I've put the whole thing in github if you're interested.
The only decent Ant/Ivy documentation I've seen is Manning's Ant in Action by Steve Loughram. If it wasn't for that, I probably would have never even tried Ant with Ivy. The online Ant/Ivy documentation at Apache is just plain awful.
I've looked over what you have. I suspect it might be an issue with your ivy-settings.xml file. Somewhere, it's getting the part string as the valid location for publishing the file. Otherwise, I have no idea.
As I said, we use a Maven repository for our site repository, and then use Maven to actually deploy the jars to the repository. I simply found that much easier to do it that way than to figure out how to do this in pure Ivy. Besides, it also means that our Maven projects can also use the jars from our Ant/Ivy projects.

Is the [conf] token respected when publishing files using Ivy?

I'm learning Ivy (http://ant.apache.org/ivy/) and integrating it as part of our build process. It's going pretty well, but I'm stuck on something with the Ivy publish task. Specifically, I'd like to publish to the local repository with the following pattern (which includes the name of the current configuration):
${ivy.local.default.root}/[organisation]/[module]/[revision]/[type]s/[conf]/[artifact].[ext]
So I set up my custom resolver:
<filesystem name="modifiedLocalRepo">
<ivy pattern="${ivy.local.default.root}/[organisation]/[module]/[revision]/[type]s/[conf]/[artifact].[ext]" />
<artifact pattern="${ivy.local.default.root}/[organisation]/[module]/[revision]/[type]s/[conf]/[artifact].[ext]" />
</filesystem>
And configured the publish task:
<ivy:publish
settingsRef="ivy.ext.settings.custom" <!--Location of definition of modifiedLocalRepo-->
resolver="modifiedLocalRepo"
artifactspattern="bin/Debug/[module].[ext]"
pubrevision="1.1-Test"
overwrite="true"
conf="primary"
/>
And have the conf defined in the ivy.xml file:
<info organisation="Mine" module="Dependency"/>
<configurations defaultconf="primary"> <!--Don't think defaultconf should be necessary-->
<conf name="primary"/>
</configurations>
<publications>
<artifact name="Dependency" ext="dll" type="bin" conf="primary"/>
<artifact name="Dependency" ext="pdb" type="bin" conf="primary"/>
</publications>
I have the process working, ivy configured, resolved, the project building, and the artifacts published (using my custom resolver above). But the [conf] token is always resolving to "default." So the published directory has the structure:
\.ivy2\local\Mine\Dependency\1.1-Test\bins\default\
instead of the structure
\.ivy2\local\Mine\Dependency\1.1-Test\bins\primary\
I've been tinkering around with it, setting the conf value, defaultconf value, etc. everywhere they are valid but it's always "default."
I'm using ant to do the build, and have run in debug mode (-d), inspected the output and noticed nothing useful. I've looked through the output of <echoproperties\> and noticed nothing useful. I've read through the Ivy documentation and only found use of [conf] as a token in retrieve and report output.
I can attach the full xml files I'm using to do my limited test build if it would be useful.
Is the [conf] token valid/respected in the artifact pattern for an Ivy publish? If so, what am I missing? Thanks!
Update:
Was using Ivy 2.3.0-rc2 and decided to try to roll back and use Ivy 2.0.0. Same issue.
Take a look at my Ivy project in github. I set it up, so you can easily add it into an existing Ant project.
We use a Maven repository, so I have it setup to create a pom.xml, and then use mvn deploy:deploy-file to deploy it back to the Maven repository. We use Jenkins for our build, so we use Jenkins to run the mvn deploy-file to do the deployment. I guess we could use <ivy:publish>, but never really tried it.

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