retrieve artifact with maven timestamp from artifactory

Question

Is there a way to retrieve an artifact with the maven timestamp as it was originally uploaded by maven?

from jenkins logs:

Uploading: http://artifactory.foo/artifactory/libs-snapshot-local/com/foo/foo-web-service/1.16.0-SNAPSHOT/foo-web-service-1.16.0-20160504.182015-2.tar.gz

Results from artifactory REST api:

$ curl -X GET 'http://artifactory.foo/artifactory/api/search/gavc?g=com.foo&a=foo-web-service&v=1.16.0-SNAPSHOT&c=*&repos=libs-snapshot-local'
{
  "results" : [ {
    "uri" : "http://artifactory.foo/artifactory/api/storage/libs-snapshot-local/com/foo/foo-web-service/1.16.0-SNAPSHOT/foo-web-service-1.16.0-SNAPSHOT-sources.jar"
  }, {
    "uri" : "http://artifactory.foo/artifactory/api/storage/libs-snapshot-local/com/foo/foo-web-service/1.16.0-SNAPSHOT/foo-web-service-1.16.0-SNAPSHOT.pom"
  }, {
    "uri" : "http://artifactory.foo/artifactory/api/storage/libs-snapshot-local/com/foo/foo-web-service/1.16.0-SNAPSHOT/foo-web-service-1.16.0-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz"
  }, {
    "uri" : "http://artifactory.foo/artifactory/api/storage/libs-snapshot-local/com/foo/foo-web-service/1.16.0-SNAPSHOT/foo-web-service-1.16.0-SNAPSHOT.war"
  } ]
}

I'd like to get the the same name as it was uploaded to via a wget or equivalent...

What I want to acheive:

jenkins uploads foo-web-service-1.16.0-20160504.182015-2.tar.gz to libs-snapshot-local
query REST api to get latest artifact link that includes the timestamps in the name with parameters a=foo-web-service&version=1.16.0&...
wget $artifact_link_with_timestamp

What I currently acheive that does not satisfy my need:

jenkins uploads foo-web-service-1.16.0-20160504.182015-2.tar.gz to libs-snapshot-local
query REST api via gavc search with parameters a=foo-web-service&version=1.16.0&...
wget $artifact_link

Conclusion as stated in the accepted answer, the problem was in the artifactory config itself. To achieve what I wanted, I needed the snapshots to be unique.

JBaruch JBaruch · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-05T14:54:21

As long as your repository is configured to use unique snapshots (or to use client snapshot policy and you use Maven 3 and up), you can always use the Maven timestamp as a version. Replacing it with -SNAPSHOT is a "runtime" trick to make the resolution easier.

If your repository is configured to use non-unique snapshots, the files are actually stored with -SNAPSHOT instead of version and override previous snapshots (don't do that).

retrieve artifact with maven timestamp from artifactory

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