Nexus Artifact Uploader, us custom artifact version number

Apollo Clark

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Jun 13, 2016, 5:00:57 PM6/13/16

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How can I configure the "Nexus Artifact Uploader" plugin to use a custom snapshot version number? I'd like to reuse the Git commit version at the end of the Snapshot name, to make it easier to track commits to artifacts.

Apollo Clark

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Jun 14, 2016, 1:26:44 PM6/14/16

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It looks likt the Nexus Artifact Uploaded doesn't natively support this, unlike the Artifactory Plugin... the best solution seems to be using the "buildnumber-maven-plugin"

http://www.mojohaus.org/buildnumber-maven-plugin/usage.html

Any other solutions?

Apollo Clark

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Jun 15, 2016, 3:03:17 PM6/15/16

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Ok, I tried setting up the "buildnumber-maven-plugin", using Perforce. However, I couldn't get it to pull the P4 Changelist number correctly, and later reuse it within the "upload-artifact-to-nexus" plugin.

To use a "custom artifact version number" in Nexus, I would need to create a "Staging Repo", push the Artifact as a Release with the custom code commit number / P4 Changelist number; then after end-to-end tests are done, use the "artifact-promotion" plugin to push the Artifacts to the "proper" Release project.

Basically, Jenkins has better support for Artifactory vs. Nexus. I'll be updating the pipeline to use Artifactory. If anyone has a better idea, I'd really like to hear it.

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