How do I deploy a file to Artifactory using the command line? - command-line

Question

I've spent far more time on this than I care to admit. I am trying to just deploy one file into my Artifactory server from the command line. I'm doing this using gradle because that is how we manage our java builds. However, this artifact is an NDK/JNI build artifact, and does not use gradle.
So I just need the simplest gradle script to do the deploy. Something equivalent to:
scp <file> <remote>
I am currently trying to use the artifactory plugin, and am having little luck in locating a reference for the plugin.

Answer 1

curl POST did not work for me . PUT worked correctly . The usage is
curl -X PUT $SERVER/$PATH/$FILE --data-binary #localfile
example :
$ curl -v --user username:password --data-binary #local-file -X PUT "http://<artifactory server >/artifactory/abc-snapshot-local/remotepath/remotefile"

Answer 2

Instead of using the curl command, I recommend using the jfrog CLI.
Download from here - https://www.jfrog.com/getcli/ and use the following command (make sure the file is executable) -
./jfrog rt u <file-name> <upload-path>
Here is a simple example:
./jfrog rt u sample-service-1.0.0.jar libs-release-local/com/sample-service/1.0.0/
You will be prompted for credentials and the repo URL the first time.
You can do lots of other stuff with this CLI tool. Check out the detailed instructions here - https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/RTF/JFrog+CLI.

Answer 3

The documentation for the artifactory plugin can be found, as expected, in Artifactory User Guide.
Please note that it is adviced to use the newer plugin - artifactory-publish, which supports the new Gradle publishing model.
Regarding uploading from the command line, you really don't need gradle for that. You can execute a simple PUT query using CURL or any other tool.
And of course if you just want to get your file into Artifactory, you can always deploy it via the UI.

Answer 4

Take a look the Artifactory REST API, mostly you can't use scp command, instead use the curl command towards REST API.
$ curl -X POST $SERVER/$PATH/$FILE --data #localfile
Mostly it looks like
$ curl -X POST http://localhost:8081/artifactory/abc-snapshot-local/remotepath/remotefile --data #localfile
The scp command is only used if you really want to access the internal folder which is managed by artifactory

Answer 5

$ curl -v -X PUT \
--user username:password \
--upload-file <path to your file> \
http://localhost:8080/artifactory/libs-release-local/my/jar/1.0/jar-1.0.jar

Answer 6

Ironically, I'm answering my own question. After a couple more hours working on the problem, I found a sample project on github: https://github.com/JFrogDev/project-examples
The project even includes a straightforward bash script for doing the exact deploy/copy from the command line that I was looking for, as well as a couple of less straightforward gradle scripts.

Answer 7

As per official docs, You can upload any file using the following command:
curl -u username:password -T <PATH_TO_FILE> "https://<ARTIFACTORY_SERVER>/<REPOSITORY_PATH>/<TARGET_FILE>"
Note: The user should have write access to this path.