3 Replies Latest reply on Feb 6, 2014 2:53 AM by cringe

Using maven repository (Nexus) as a Content Source?

cringe Jan 22, 2014 1:34 AM

I'm currently looking into JON for deployments and wondered if it is possible to use a maven repository like Nexus as a content source.

We're keeping all our applications in Nexus and I'd like to take the artifacts from our RELEASE repository and deploy them to our servers. It would be nice to use JONs bundles and fetch the artifacts directly from the repository instead of moving them to the local disk or some other workaround. Using a remote HTTP content source would be possible I think, but then I'd have to create a new content source for each new release, because the URL in the maven repository contains the version number...

Any advice or maybe a better workaround for this?

1. Re: Using maven repository (Nexus) as a Content Source?

b.eckenfels Feb 4, 2014 4:33 PM (in response to cringe)

I guess you can always use an URL which points to an artifact hosted by a maven-style repository (manager). But I agree that it would be good if you could actually use the maven coordinates, have some gui support to allow browsing of artifacts/versions and allow the downloader to use the fingerprint metadata to verify proper transmission as well.
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2. Re: Using maven repository (Nexus) as a Content Source?

lkrejci Feb 4, 2014 5:18 PM (in response to cringe)

We are currently having discussions about consolidating our content and bundle subsystems, possibly replacing them with something entirely different. This is a good suggestion that we should keep in mind. Would you please file an RFE (request for enhancement) bug in our bugzilla [1] describing your requirements?

As for the current state of things, we don't have such content source but I imagine it would not be impossible to implement one - content sources are after all server plugins so you could go ahead and write your own. This wiki page can get you started on server plugin development [2]. Namely, you will want to implement a "content plugin", an example of which you can find for example here [3].

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=RHQ%20Project
[2] Server Plugin Development - RHQ - Project Documentation Editor
[3] https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/rhq/rhq.git/tree/modules/enterprise/server/plugins/url
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3. Re: Using maven repository (Nexus) as a Content Source?

cringe Feb 6, 2014 2:53 AM (in response to lkrejci)

Thanks Lukas for the clarification and the links. I'll read up on server plugins and maybe I can come up with a quick solution to my immediate problem (I think, it's mostly about getting the URI to the latest version of an artifact, which I already implemented in a simple java CLI application).

I created https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062114 in Bugzilla, and I'd appreciate comments about the description of my goal.
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