How do I provide URL access to the latest snapshot of an artifact in Nexus 2.x?

Question

I would like to provide a simple URL that will always return the latest version of a snapshot version of an artifact. By simple I mean that the URL doesn\'t change, or requ

Answer 1

on my nexus machine all results for :

http://nexushost.domain/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/com/company/elasticsearch-river-mongodb/1.2.3-SNAPSHOT/

are like this: *-1.2.3-20131204.143026-1.zip

so I can't access it directly because I need to provide more details that are dynamic.

The example with "...redirect?r=central-proxy&g=log4j&a=log4j&v=LATEST" is working if I open in browser but not when I what to install it from some linux machine using:

/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/plugin --url "http://localhost:8081/nexus/service/local/artifact/maven/redirect?r=snapshots&g=com.comapny.application&a=elasticsearch-river-mongodb&v=1.2.3-SNAPSHOT&p=zip" --install river-mongodb

So my temporary solution is using wget :

wget -O /tmp/elasticsearch-river-mongodb.zip "http://nexushost.domain/nexus/service/local/artifact/maven/redirect?r=snapshots&g=com.comapny.application&a=elasticsearch-river-mongodb&v=1.2.3-SNAPSHOT&p=zip"

then install LATEST version from local file.