[Anthill-pro] build artifact retrieval

[Ryan Smith]

You could also use our Codestation client in command-line form, Ant task or IDE plug-in to retrieve the files all at once. This is most frequently used to retrieve all the dependency artifacts of the project the developer is working on but you can also get the artifacts published by a build.

Ryan Smith

Neerenberg, Aaron wrote:
> Just a question about retrieval of artifacts from a build life;
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> Currently, one of my projects is configured to create about 50 artifact 
> files (objects derived from source, such as compiled dll’s/executables, 
> etc…)  It looks like the dependency mechanism will work well for 
> retrieving these artifacts for usage within other builds.  However, I 
> frequently have cases where these artifacts would be useful to have 
> exported from the ALA server onto a developer’s machine.  Although there 
> is a download link with each individual artifact file, this will get 
> rather cumbersome for our larger projects.  Is there the equivalent of a 
> “download all” link or function which would just download all of the 
> artifacts from a build life? 
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> Two alternatives that I see are either:
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> 1.       share the ALA artifact repository directory structure;  
> although this would get the files available to the developers (currently 
> they are used to simply using a file copy from a HA server I setup), I 
> see this route as potentially having problems with naming/paths.
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> 2.       Alternately, it seems like this could probably be done using a 
> separate workflow/job within the originating project which could query 
> the user re: where to place artifacts, and then use a ‘resolve my 
> artifacts’ step. 
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> I plan to see if I can implement #2 this afternoon;  would this fit with 
> Anthill’s recommendations, or is there another way that this should be done?
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> Thanks,
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> Aaron
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