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How to enumerate jar versions on http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.derby/derbyclient

 
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I did some boogle searching and found some examples of using curl to download the latest version using the nexus REST API.

Most the the examples I found were for sonatype.com and they used a password and username. I don't have a password and username and it was not clear to me how to adapt the example for a different repository like the mvnrepository.com.

I want to enumerate the versions of (for example) the derby jdbc client like I see at http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.derby/derbyclient.

What is the curl command I could use to do this?

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Maven repositories follow a standard format. You can easily enumerate all the artifacts by browsing through the maven repository. You don't need a REST API (although it would be nice to have one) mvnrepository.com, despite the URL, isn;t the maven repository. It's just a website built on top of the real maven repository. The real maven repository is at http://central.maven.org/maven2/

So, what you can do is write a program that
a) opens up a connection to http://central.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/derby/derbyclient/
b) gets the response which is an HTML file. THe HTML file will list out all the versions of the module
c) Parse the HTML file.
 
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I had abandoned that idea because I was worried about the format changing...

But you say it is Standard? Really?
That is good news....
Does that mean the format will never change?

Wow! OK! I just took a look... That looks like pretty minimal formatting... I guess that would work and I won't worry about a REST interface then. What a surprise!
Is this minimal format also used by the other repositories like the JBOSS and eclipse maven repositories?

Sound like a job for a groovy script using the httpclient html parser...

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Siegfried
P.S. I would click on the question answered button if there was one!
 
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Yeah, if the format changes, maven builds will fail all over the world. They might change the format when a major version of maven comes out.

If you are making a Mojo, you might have a way to do this using the Maven api. I don;t know enough to give you an answer. However, if do a little digging, you might find an API that maven provides. of course, you will be able to use it inside a Mojo only
 
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OK, well now I'm glad there is no "question is answer checkbox" or I would have to uncheck it!

Why does not wget http://central.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/derby/derbyclient/ work?
Here is the result:



Ok, but here is what I get from my little groovy program that does work (what a surprise!).
My question is: how do I know what the versions are? What regex can I use? should I assume that are always numeric with periods in between? I don't think that is a good assumption.



Can someone help me modify my little groovy program so it only prints the version numbers?
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