I wanted to know if we can have mass upload of artifacts to the repository in Nexus.
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See this answer for a Groovy script that achieves the same thing but using the standard deployment process: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3240477/upload-download-entire-directory-to-nexus-through-maven – Aaron Digulla Aug 29 '11 at 08:37
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You can do it in a variety of ways:
- Use the Nexus artifact upload page (note this only works for multiple artifacts with the same groupId and artifactId).
- Set up a script, with multiple invocations of the maven-deploy-plugin's deploy-file goal, one for each artifact.
- If you have access to the file system, you can copy the files directly into [sonatype-work]/storage/[repository-name]. If you do this, set up scheduled tasks to rebuild the metadata and reindex the repository.
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1in the latest version of nexus rebuilding the metadata is just right click on the repository in nexus – Chetan Dec 29 '12 at 10:22
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1I would not consider the nexus upload page useful for mass upload of artifacts since the file dialog it pops-up only allows a single selection - so every artifact requires multiple button clicks which gets old very quickly. – Jay Mar 01 '13 at 16:46
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1Third option worked like a champ, needed to click refresh a few times for it to pick up the changes on disk though. Just copy everything under the .../.m2/repository directory in the .../sonatype_work/nexus/storage/thirdparty directory. – cyber-monk Jul 12 '13 at 15:23
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@cyber-monk I have nexus-3.12.1-01. I am not able to find storage folder. – Hiren Jun 18 '18 at 12:41
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1This will not work for Nexus 3 and above. The local storage is not in the form of plain binary files anymore; everything is stored as 'blobs'. – shasan Feb 07 '19 at 20:04
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Use the Nexus Repository Conversion Tool to create Release and Snapshot folders based on your local .m2 folder and then move the contents of those folders into [sonatype-work]/storage/[repository-name].
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That link appears to be dead or to now require a login. This question has some information on how to use the tool, though: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4243477/update-nexus-repository-with-local-artifacts – James Jul 07 '16 at 03:28