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Alexander Prattes
Alexander Prattes

Reputation: 21

Sonatype Nexus adding Proxy Repository with REST API

I'm trying to add a proxy repository to my local Sonatype Nexus™ OSS 2.8.1-01 using the REST API and curl, but it doesn't work

curl command:

 curl -i -H "Accept: application/xml" -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -f -X POST  -v -d "@/tmp/input.xml" -u
 "admin:admin123" "http://localhost:8081/nexus/service/local/repositories"

till there it works fine, when I'll add a hosted repository defined in the input.xml, but not with a proxy repository

with a proxy repository I'll get following response:

 upload completely sent off: 445 out of 445 bytes
 The requested URL returned error: 400 Bad Request
 Closing connection 0

Nexus logfile:

2014-08-12 09:57:44,189+0200 TRACE [qtp531741605-42] admin com.thoughtworks.xstream.whitelist.TypeWhitelist - All types allowed: remoteUri
2014-08-12 09:57:44,201+0200 WARN  [qtp531741605-42] admin org.sonatype.nexus.rest.NexusRestletResource - Invalid XML, unable to parse using XStream class org.sonatype.nexus.rest.repositories.RepositoryListPlexusResource
com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.AbstractReflectionConverter$UnknownFieldException: No such field org.sonatype.nexus.rest.model.RepositoryProxyResource.remoteUri

---- Debugging information ----
field               : remoteUri
class               : org.sonatype.nexus.rest.model.RepositoryBaseResource
required-type       : org.sonatype.nexus.rest.model.RepositoryBaseResource
converter-type      : org.sonatype.nexus.rest.repositories.RepositoryBaseResourceConverter
path                : /repository/data/remoteUri
line number         : 1
class[1]            : org.sonatype.nexus.rest.model.RepositoryResourceResponse
converter-type[1]   : org.sonatype.nexus.rest.repositories.RepositoryResourceResponseConverter
version             : 1.4.6-SONATYPE-03

He recognizes remotUri as a unknown field, but it is a required field for configure a new proxy repository

input.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<repository>
  <data>
    <id>maven.jenkins-ci.org</id>
    <name>Jenkins CI</name>
    <repoType>proxy</repoType>
    <repoPolicy>RELEASE</repoPolicy>
    <provider>maven2</provider>
    <providerRole>org.sonatype.nexus.proxy.repository.Repository</providerRole>
    <format>maven2</format>
    <exposed>true</exposed>
    <remoteUri>http://repo.jenkins-ci.org/public/</remoteUri>
  </data>
</repository>

to prevent a type not allowd error I put 

com.thoughtworks.xstream.whitelist.TypeWhitelist.allowAll=true

in the nexus.properties

What am I doing wrong? Hope someone can help me

regards Alex

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2359

Answers (1)

rseddon
rseddon

Reputation: 5328

I'd suggest using JSON rather than XML as the payload type. If you do this you can just watch the HTTP traffic from the UI to the server when creating the repository, the UI makes the REST API call you need.

See here for more information:

http://blog.sonatype.com/2012/07/learning-the-nexus-rest-api-read-the-docs-or-fire-up-a-browser

Upvotes: 2

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