How to download the latest minor version of nexus artifact using REST

Question

I want to use the latest minor version of a nexus artifact. Like this

http://local:8081/service/local/artifact/maven/content?g=com.mycompany&a=my-app&v=3.0.x

Nexus rest api doesn't accept version like 3.0.x or 3.0.*.

The nexus rest api isn't accepting versions like 3.0.* or 3.0.x. I can not use v=latest because it may change the major version. What should I do?

Answer 1

If you're using nexus 2.x, you can try

http://local:8081/service/local/lucene/search?repositoryId=someRep&a=my-app

This will give you an xml response listing relevant artifacts. You can use this to get the version you want

Or

create a macro to fetch the latest version from nexus. you can do this by using groovy with ant.