Downloading artifacts from NXRM 3

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I am new to Nexus and have a basic question.

I have a C# application and using Jenkins for builds and storing the generated deployment package (zip) in Nexus. I now want to use the same package and deploy that to higher environments (TEST, PROD) by taking it from Nexus. I am not finding any easy way to download a Nexus artifact through Jenkins pipeline. I am curious to know the reason for that. Uploading to Nexus repository is so easy, but why download is not ?

Is my requirement wrong ? Is this not how Nexus is supposed to be used ? How else would I use the deployed package for TEST/PROD regions instead of building the code again ?

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Would appreciate if someone from the community or from NXRM team can provide some insights to this.

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Downloading from Nexus is trivial, if you aren’t using a particular client you can generally find the download path in the UI.

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Hi @mpiggott, I have the download URL but want it to be scripted as part of Jenkins pipeline. Should I be using curl for that ?
I am currently using Nexus Artifact uploader and Nexus Platform plugins, and none of them provide any download option.

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There isn’t a right way to do it form the perspective of Nexus, its really up to how you want to write your pipeline deployment.

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You might consider using the REST API to download the artifact (you can see the REST API under Admin > System > API)