Creating repositories, groups etc. via REST API in Nexus 3

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1

Hi there,

I want to know if I can leverage the REST API as it was in nexus 2 so that I can create repositories, perform configuration in the repository etc. remotely. By googling I wasn’t yet able to find information. Help, anyone?

Fred

2

Hey Fred,

Check out the documentation for all the API options here: REST and Integration API

Let us know if you need anymore help around these.

Cheers,

Nick

3

Hi Nick,

thanks for responding. I can’t find API for changing user credentials, or admin password, or creating new repositories and so on programmatically. Is this no longer possible with nexus 3?

Thanks,
Fred

4

You can use the scripting API for those use cases. See here:

https://help.sonatype.com/display/NXRM3/Script+API

These links will also be of use:

Nexus 3 Groovy Script development environment setup
https://help.sonatype.com/display/NXRM3/Examples
Groovy: Close those transactions, or else…

5

Hi,

Can someone help me with the api to add nexus hosted repo to group (Public repo)?

I need to run curl through bash script.

6

You could use this url path to do a POST with nexus oss 3
/service/rest/beta/repositories/nuget/proxy

Body
{
“name”: “internal”,
“online”: true,
“storage”: {
“blobStoreName”: “default”,
“strictContentTypeValidation”: true
},
“cleanup”: {
“policyNames”: “weekly-cleanup”
},
“proxy”: {
“remoteUrl”: “https://registry.npmjs.org”,
“contentMaxAge”: 1440,
“metadataMaxAge”: 1440
},
“negativeCache”: {
“enabled”: false,
“timeToLive”: 1440
},
“httpClient”: {
“blocked”: false,
“autoBlock”: false,
“connection”: {
“retries”: 0,
“userAgentSuffix”: “string”,
“timeout”: 60,
“enableCircularRedirects”: false,
“enableCookies”: false
},
“authentication”: {
“type”: “username”,
“username”: “string”,
“ntlmHost”: “string”,
“ntlmDomain”: “string”
}
},
“routingRule”: “string”,
“nugetProxy”: {
“queryCacheItemMaxAge”: “mixed”
}
}

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7

Can you pls let me know how to query baseversion? I am not seeing any components for base version in REST Response… Pls help me

8

Is it possible that rest api in nexus 3 or any version accepts artifacts other than maven artifacts

We have something like this:
Url is nexus/service/local/repositories - only accepts maven artifact in nexus 2. Wanted to check if rest api url in nexus higher versions can directly accepts zip file not maven artifacts.

Curl -H " content-type: application/json" -d @repo.json -u username password http://bar.t-dev.corp.****/nexus/service/local/repositories nexus