DESCRIPTION:

This plugin adds a new build parameter type - maven-metadata. If you select this type and give in a repositoryURL, groupId and artifactId the plugin will check for that artifact at the given repository and let whoever started the build select a version of the artifact to bind as a build parameter.

There are also several options to provide default values which will also be evaluated at run-time:

• FIRST - will evaluate to the first item in the drop-down that would have been presented had the build been executed manually
• LAST - will evaluate to the last item in the drop-down that would have been presented had the build been executed manually.
• RELEASE - will evaluate to the version marked as RELEASE in the repository metadata for the configured artifact. The versionFilter even if defined is ignored for this default value.
• LATEST - will evaluate to the version marked as LATEST in the repository metadata for the configured artifact. The versionFilter even if defined is ignored for this default value.

This plugin does not download anything but rather sets build environment variables describing the artifact and where it can be downloaded from.

If all you need to do is download an artifact from a repository and use it during your build you can consider using the repository connector plugin instead.

REQUIREMENTS:

Jenkins:

Built and tested against Jenkins 1.447.

LICENSE & AUTHOR:

Author:: Georgi "Gesh" Markov (gesh[at]markov.eu)

Copyright:: 2012, AKQA, Georgi "Gesh" Markov

Licensed under the MIT License

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