Trouble deploying snapshot from Bamboo to Artifactory - bamboo

I would like to deploy snapshot builds from Bamboo to Artifactory. My repository's Handle Snapshots option is checked and it's Maven Snapshot Version Behavior is set to Unique. The repository's layout is gradle-default.
My goal is for a build plan to deploy an artifact at a location similar to the following:
repo-local:com.company/project/1.0-SNAPSHOT/project-1.0-20120612.101600.txt
In Bamboo I have a Artifactory Generic Deploy Task, configured with the following for the Edit Published Artifacts field:
project-1.0-SNAPSHOT.txt=>com.company/project/1.0-SNAPSHOT
However Artifactory rejects my build artifacts, saying The repository 'repo-local' rejected the artifact 'repo-local:com.company/project/1.0-SNAPSHOT/project-1.0-SNAPSHOT.txt' due to its snapshot/release handling policy.
How do I get Artifactory to accept the artifact and automatically replace SNAPSHOT with a timestamp in the filename?

Your problem is most likely the fact that the path you deploy to is not considered a valid integration revision by the layout you've selected (gradle-default).
The gradle-default layout expects integration revisions like:
org/module/1.0-12345678912345/module-1.0-12345678912345.jar
That is, for a 14 digit long time stamp to be appended after the base revision;
While your path contains SNAPSHOT instead of a 14 digit long timestamp.
If you want to have pattern like:
com.company/project/1.0-SNAPSHOT/project-1.0-20120612.101600.txt
You will have to customize the layout to accept -SNAPSHOT as the folder integration revision and modify your artifact to contain a timestamp as the file integration revision.
I'm guessing your assumption was that Artifactory will convert the non-unique integration revision to a unique one; Artifactory performs this conversion only when the repository is set to the default Maven layout and when the artifacts adhere to Maven's layout.
This is due to the fact the while Maven actually has defined standards for integration revisions, Gradle do not have such a standard; So basically, a Gradle revision could be practically anything.
On top of that, the concept of unique and non-unique integration revisions doesn't really exist in the Gradle world, it doesn't actually have any built-on functionality to support these features; and so when you see a Mavenized path in Gradle, it's just basically mimicking the pattern.

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optional artifacts download task in bamboo?

Is it possible to configure a deployment project with optional 'Artifact Download' task?
The artifact comes from another plan which has 2 stages producing 2 artifacts. If only 1 stage is executed, it will have 1 shared artifact. I want my deployment project to run even there is only 1 artifact.
But bamboo fail the whole execution with error: "Unable to download artifact Shared artifact: ..." trying to locate the 2nd artifact.
How can I tell Bamboo to ignore the missing artifact and continue the execution?
The only way I've figure this out is to instead of name an artifact, put all of the artifacts into a "directory" as part of the build process, say "artifacts/", and define the artifacts as "artifacts/**". Then on the Deployment side, be clever about manipulating the artifacts for deployments.
Note, in my case, I have an issue with multiple branches for the same build (think, "future release", "current release", "legacy release") that may have different artifacts on them (either new features in "future release", or aged off artifacts from "legacy release"). I had to wrap the actual deployments into a script that was "smart enough" to just iterate through artifacts that actually existed for a given deployment environment.
I'm not completely happy with Bamboo's treatment of special cases for artifact management at all. In fact, I've found that judicious use of the "script" task in Bamboo (and managing those scripts in some external git repo) seems to be the only real way to manage larger Bamboo installations in general.

How do I fix incorrect checksums in my Nexus repository?

Some of the artifacts in my local Nexus repository don't have the correct checksum. For example (wrong checksum):
cat central/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-compiler-api/1.8/plexus-compiler-api-1.8.pom.sha1
95f3332c2bbace129da501424f297e47dd0e976b
vs (correct checksum):
sha1sum central/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-compiler-api/1.8/plexus-compiler-api-1.8.pom
4c2947f7e2d09b6e13da34292d897c564f1f9828
It looks like I have a few artifacts in my repository that were downloaded when this bug was active.
Maven Central has the correct checksum (4c29...) now, but the checksums in my local Nexus repository remain stale. I don't know how to get my local repository to verify and / or re-download the correct checksum from central.
What is the correct way of fixing my local repository. There aren't too many artifacts with this problem, so I think I could (by hand) verify they still exist in central and delete them from my local repository. They should get re-cached with the correct checksums. Is there a better way?
Update:
I've looked at this more and I'm almost positive I know what the source of my problem is. One of the artifacts I'm having trouble with is this one (plexus-compiler-api:1.8):
In my repository, both the .pom and .pom.sha1 are timestamped as 29-Mar-2010. At central, the .pom is timestamped as 29-Mar-2010 while the .pom.sha1 is timestamped as 21-Apr-2010. I was reading about Nexus maintenance. I assume that, on 21-Apr-2010, Maven Central rebuilt metadata and verified checksums which fixed the incorrect .sha1 for the plexus-compiler-api:1.8 artifact.
According to the Sonatype link above, I should be able to expire the caches for Maven Central and have my local installation pull new copies of anything with newer timestamps than the originally cached artifacts. However, based on the behavior I've observed, I think it's only checking timestamps for artifact files, not checksum files.
As far as my local Nexus repository is concerned, I have the most recent version of the artifact (29-Mar-2010), so there's no need to re-download anything.
I've noticed my version of Nexus is quite old (1.5 vs 1.9.1), so I'll try updating and see if the newer version does a better job of expiring caches. If not, I'll probably see what the Sonatype guys think (maybe it's a bug?).
Nope, what you face is the defined behaviour of Nexus and Maven.
First, expiring caches does not delete anything from local cache of Nexus, it just marks them "old". The effect of marking items as "old" is shown on next incoming request asking for those same artifacts (if never asked for, the "old" artifacts just sits there). Meaning, expire cache alone will not cause Nexus to download remotely changed (newer) files. Nexus never downloads on it's own (if we leave out the index from this discussion). You have to force a client (Maven) ask for them – and that will result following chain of action: "cache content old", remote change detection and finally re-download and caching of the new file.
Next, what happens here is that Maven, since artifact (the JAR file) is not changed, not even asks for checksum file either, hence nothing "triggers" the "old" marked checksum refetch on Nexus side. Other to note, if we talk about released artifact (and Maven Central does contains released artifacts only), Maven will never re-check them, unless they are not present in local repository (once brought into local repository, Maven will never try to refetch them). Meaning, you need to remove them from local repository to be sure that Maven will ask for them from Nexus, and finally, that Nexus will detect the checksum file changes on remote and do what you actually want.
Re-download should happen, for example if you nuke your Maven's local repository and rebuild with a clean/empty one. In this case, Maven should ask for both, JAR artifact and checksum file – but from your description it's not clear how did you (or did you?) invoke Maven after expiring caches on Nexus.
Try this:
a) run expire caches on Nexus "Maven Central" proxy repository
b) nuke local repository (or just redirect it to a new clean folder by tampering ~/.m2/settings.xml
c) make Maven build your project, and it should refetch both, the JAR and checksum files (by using empty/nuked local repository)
Hope this explains some of the stuff you wrote.
Reference to JIRA issue discussing same thing.
This was a bug.
As explained by Tamas, when a proxied repository cache is expired, Nexus will check the remote repository for newer timestamps. The locally cached artifacts are essentially flagged dirty and the check for updated artifacts happens on demand as artifacts are requested from the local Nexus server.
Nexus (1.9.1) is making the assumption that if an artifact timestamp is unchanged, the checksums should be unchanged as well. Most of the time this will be true, but, due to the old bug in Maven that was deploying artifacts with incorrect checksums, there are rare cases where an artifact can be unchanged yet have an updated checksum.
I think the best way to deal with this for now will be to move any bad checksums and let Nexus try to re-resolve them the next time they are requested:
mv plexus-compiler-api.pom.sha1 plexus-compiler-api-1.8.pom.sha1.bak
Thanks for the help Tamas.

maven clearcase integration analysis

I am planning to integrate Clearcase UCM(under dynamic view) with Maven.
1) I found that Maven SCM is partially
implemented for clearcase. Is there
are any still issue with this? what is
meaning partailly implemented SCM?
2) How compatable Clearcase with
Maven?
3)Any issues or limitation with this 2
tools integration?
4)Maven docs says that it is not
possible to use SCM plugin features
like creating tags (applying labels),
creating Change logs, and so on.
5) where can i find good document to integrate Maven with clearcase?. Apache site have given, but it is not very clear for beginners.
There are very few documentations on Maven with UCM ClearCase, and limitations like the ones described in SCM Implementation: ClearCase:
The ClearCase SCM provider uses snapshot views.
(so no dynamic view for instance, but you mention tags, which should be implemented as UCM baseline)
As no SCM metadata can be accessed, it is not possible to use SCM plugin features like creating tags (applying labels), creating changelogs, and so on.
Another limitation, in this thread:
Hi. I have been able to integrate Hudson and ClearCase without too much trouble using a Windows machine. Downloading source code from a given baseline or stream is fine.
The problem comes if you try to use some ant tasks for checking out a pom file, make some changes ( like updating some version numbers ) and then checkin the modified pom file before starting to build.
No matter if I use an ant script with ClearCase tasks, or internal Java classes, or even a maven-release-plugin for Hudson that tries to do this kind of job, I always end with the following error :
cleartool: Error: Type manager "_xml2" failed create_version operation
when trying to checking a XML file.
Which kind of integration are you looking for?
If it's about identifying and documenting the changes between UCM baselines, streams, activities and components, you can use CompBL - a complemntary add-on for ClearCase.
It's an easy to install add-on yet very powerful.
Cheers
This is an error thrown by clearcase while checking in xml files, if xml file is exceeding more then /1000 characters.
try changing xml file type, this will resolve the issue "cleartool chtype file file.xml"

How to generate different deployables from the same Maven project?

I have a situation that I'm sure must be fairly common. I have some Maven-built applications that deploy to different types of application server - like Tomcat, JBoss, etc.
The build processes 'tunes' the deployable artifact to the specific target type of application server (for example, different included dependencies, context roots, other config). This tuning is controlled with build profiles (-Ptomcat, -Pjboss etc)
So, for a given version of my application, I need to run builds that produce different deployables. I run mvn -Ptomcat clean package for example and I get an artifact in my /target directory that is the tomcat-tuned version.
The best approach I've been able to come up with so far is to specify finalnames for the artifacts that include the profile information, but for that approach, I'm not sure how to configure Maven to copy the final artifact off to some specific location so that the next build for a different type doesn't overwrite it.
Is this a good approach? If so, how can I achieve that final copy?
Or is there a better way?
You'll need to use Maven Assembly Plugin.

Maven attempts to use wrong snapshot version

I'm trying to deploy the snapshot version of a 3rd party library to our local repo (for legacy reasons this is and old version which is no longer hosted at any online repo, and for the time being I can't replace it, hence I have to host it locally).
Now, I think I've misunderstood the SNAPSHOT-concept, so I'd be very thankful if somebody could set me straight. The jar I have is named foo-0.5.0-20090612.124.jar, and I try uploading it using maven deploy:deploy file to org.bar.foo under version 0.5.0.
The version dependency in my POM is 0.5.0-SNAPSHOT
Each time I upload the jar file to our local repo the number following the date in the filename is iterated (i.e to 125), but when I run maven install, maven attempts to download a jar with the previous number (i.e. 124).
So, is there any way of getting maven to download the correct snapshot version, or should I have no business uploading 3rd party SNAPSHOT files to our repo?
The use case you have is fine. I believe the best practice recommended by the Maven folks is that once you are uploading a SNAPSHOT version of a jar to a shared repository, you should stop treating it as a SNAPSHOT, and instead as a release.
This makes sense because you want people to depend on that specific version of that artifact. The artifact is not under active development and is not expected to change arbitrarily at any point in time and for that reason it should be considered a release. Just one to which you give your own personal fancy name, and one that someone else considered a SNAPSHOT.
When you ask for the dependency foo-0.5.0-SNAPSHOT, I don't believe Maven looks for foo-0.5.0-. I believe it literally looks for foo-0.5.0-SNAPSHOT in the repository, and that is why you are not finding it. (Not 100% sure about this though, as we don't timestamp our SNAPSHOTS. We simply continually overwrite -SNAPSHOT jars with newer versions as they are made.)
So, put foo-0.5.0-20090612.124.jar into your third party repository (which should only contain releases for the reason above). Then in your pom, reference the "released" artifact foo-0.5.0-20090612.124 explicitly, and everything should work fine.
I'm not sure I follow, you should have an artifact called myartifact.jar attached to a POM with a version of 0.5-SNAPSHOT.
When deploying, your repository should change the -SNAPSHOT into a timestamp and update the repository metadata to reflect that this is the most current SNAPSHOT version, so that it can properly serve a SNAPSHOT request.
Do you use a repository such as Archiva or Nexus or just a FTP/HTTP server?