How to get 'latest' artifact version?

Question

I'm wondering if Nexus provides API (I unfortunately didn't find any useful examples) to do such thing. So, in my group id (com.testtools) I got artifact hibi which is versioned in manner - major.minor.patch. Currently in this directory I've got versions:

0.0.5
0.1.2
0.1.4

I know how to get certain version or how get latest stored version (here - snapshot), e.g.:

wget 'http://mynexus.se:8081/nexus/service/local/artifact/maven/content?g=com.testtools&a=hibi&v=LATEST&r=snapshots' --content-disposition

give me hibi-0.1.4. But for this hibi artifact I have to be able to get the latest patch for certain minor version. So how can I get 0.0.5 if I pass 0.0 (or 0.1.4 if I pass 0.1)? Tried something like:

wget 'http://mynexus.se:8081/nexus/service/local/artifact/maven/content?g=com.testtools&a=hibi&v=0.1.*&r=snapshots' --content-disposition

but it isn't work properly (artifact not found). I'll be glad for any suggestions.

Answer 1

Here is a simple pom.xml, which will copy its dependencies (I used slf4j as an example) to the directory "destination". Just start it with "mvn clean install".

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

<groupId>YourGroup</groupId>
<artifactId>Test</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>pom</packaging>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
        <version>[1.6.0,1.7.0)</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.8</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>copy-dependencies</id>
                    <phase>package</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration>
                        <outputDirectory>destination</outputDirectory>
                        <overWriteIfNewer>true</overWriteIfNewer>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
    <pluginManagement>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                <artifactId>versions-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <allowSnapshots>true</allowSnapshots>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
</build>
</project>