Get List of artifacts in an Ivy Repositoty - ivy

Question

I manage an Ivy repository with an extensive number of artifacts and i have been requested to list all third party librarys which we have a hundred odd. does anyone know of a a way to retrieve a list of artifacts from an ivy repo?

Answer 1

i found no such way to do this, i wrote a script in java to get the results, thought i might share the answer if people wanted it in the future, it is also formatted to be copied straight into an excel document.
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
public class ListArtifacts {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Collection<File> all = new ArrayList<File>();
addTree(new File("."), all);
String delimeter = "\\.";
List<String> remove = new ArrayList<String>();
List<String> everything = new ArrayList<String>();
remove.add("pom");
remove.add("jar");
remove.add("xml");
remove.add("txt");
remove.add("sha1");
remove.add("md5");
remove.add("metadata");
remove.add("tar");
remove.add("gz");
remove.add("zip");
remove.add("rar");
FileWriter fWriter = null;
BufferedWriter writer = null;
try {
fWriter = new FileWriter("info.txt");
writer = new BufferedWriter(fWriter);
Iterator itr = all.iterator();
while (itr.hasNext() == true){
String[] split;
String temp = itr.next().toString();
split = temp.split(delimeter);
int i = 0;
int j = 0;
boolean flag = false;
while (i < split.length){
while (j < remove.size()){
if (split[i].equals(remove.get(j))){
flag = true;
}
j++;
}
j = 0;
i++;
}
if (flag == false){
String output = "";
int k=0;
boolean flag2 = false;
boolean hasVersion = false;
while (k < split.length){
if (flag2 == true){
output += ".";
flag2 = false;
}
output = output + split[k].toString();
boolean lastInt = false;
try{
String last = split[k].substring(split[k].length() - 1);
if (isInteger(last) == true)
lastInt = true;
}catch(Exception e){}
if ((isInteger(split[k].toString()) == true) || (lastInt == true)){
flag2 = true;
hasVersion = true;
}
k++;
}
if (hasVersion == true){
everything.add(output.substring(1));
writer.append(output.substring(1));
writer.newLine();
}
}
}
int i = 0;
String delim = "\\\\";
String finalOutput = "";
String toSplit = "";
while (i < everything.size()){
toSplit = everything.get(i);
String[] split2 = toSplit.split(delim);
finalOutput = split2[0] + "\t";
int j = 1;
while (j < split2.length-2){
finalOutput += split2[j] + ".";
j++;
}
finalOutput += split2[split2.length-2] + "\t";
finalOutput += split2[split2.length-1];
writer.append(finalOutput);
writer.newLine();
i++;
}
writer.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
}
System.out.println(all);
}
public static boolean isInteger(String input )
{
try
{
Integer.parseInt(input);
return true;
}
catch(Exception e)
{
return false;
}
}
static void addTree(File file, Collection<File> all) {
File[] children = file.listFiles();
if (children != null) {
for (File child : children) {
all.add(child);
addTree(child, all);
}
}
}
}
im sure this can be done much more cleanly, but i did no higher thinking just did the first thing i thought of with no revision.

Answer 2

If you are looking to do this using ivy during a build, the report task should help you get a report of all the JARs you are using.
If you are trying to fetch these details from the repository manager (covering all possible users), could you answer the question from #oers? Repository managers often offer some API that you can use to get reports about the artifacts that they store.