Set version when uploading to a raw repository

[Dave H]

I've noticed when browsing raw repositories, there is a column "version" for the artifacts that is always empty.  Is there a way to utilize that field when uploading/downloading artifacts from a raw repo? Typically we upload via the CURL command.

[Jeffry Hesse]

Hi Dave,

Not to my knowledge. Raw repositories store very little information about uploaded items. 

It is certainly an interesting use case. Are you using a raw repo to store a specific repository format we don't have support for as of yet? Interested in your use case. 

I and a few others internally have been working on some formats primarily for Open Source, as examples of how to roll your own format, hence the question.

Jeffry 

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 10:34 AM Dave H <david....@gmail.com> wrote:

I've noticed when browsing raw repositories, there is a column "version" for the artifacts that is always empty.  Is there a way to utilize that field when uploading/downloading artifacts from a raw repo? Typically we upload via the CURL command.

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[Dave H]

We use the raw repo for holding various things -- notably C/C++ libraries (both .so and .dll).  In this case we group them as if they were Maven-ish artifacts (group, version, architecture, artificat name).  Also it holds java jre jdk installables organized by platform.

[Jeffry Hesse]

Good to know, thanks Dave!

For version, about the best thing you can do using Raw is put the version in the path for the asset, which it sounds like you are doing. 

If you were interested in rolling your own format for the C/C++ stuff, you might take a gander at what we did for R: https://github.com/sonatype/nexus-repository-r

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