Question

I have a simple Jenkins build that pulls down my project from github, builds it and reports the status of the build.

I want to have configure Jenkins to publish the resulting JAR file to a TARGET-SNAPSHOTS branch in my project.

Currently my project .gitignore’s /target/*

I was looking at GitPublisher but this appears to push the entire build out, rather than just the jar file.

Thoughts on the best way to do this/if this is possible?

Thanks

Answer 1

Since you’re using maven and you said the github downloads section is acceptable, you can use the github downloads plugin – https://github.com/github/maven-plugins. I use this for deploying the Riak java client to our downloads section as part of the build.

In your ~/.m2/settings.xml you need:

<settings>
  <profiles>
    <profile>
      <id>github</id>
      <properties>
        <github.global.userName>YourGithubUser</github.global.userName>
        <github.global.password>YourGithubPass</github.global.password>
      </properties>
    </profile>
  </profiles>
  <activeProfiles>
    <activeProfile>github</activeProfile>
  </activeProfiles>
</settings>

Then in your project’s .pom something like:

<profile>
  <id>githubUpload</id>
  <activation>
    <property>
      <name>github.downloads</name>
      <value>true</value>
    </property>
  </activation>
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>com.github.github</groupId>
        <artifactId>downloads-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>0.4</version>
        <configuration>
          <description>${project.version} release of ${project.name}</description>
          <override>false</override>               
          <includeAttached>true</includeAttached>
        </configuration>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <goals>
              <goal>upload</goal>
            </goals>
            <phase>install</phase>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</profile>

(I’m doing it as part of the install phase – you can do however you’d like)

Then simply add -Dgithub.downloads=true to your maven build –

mvn install -Dgithub.downloads=true

The web page for the plugin lists all the options for including/excluding files, etc.