Retrieve latest artifact from JFROG artifactory - versioning

Question

I have a few versions of my code in JFROG, which are provided to the clients. How do I specify a generic way to pull latest version(Artifact)? It is not Maven code. I looked up on the Jfrog page:
'''
GET http://localhost:8081/artifactory/ivy-local/org/acme/[RELEASE]/acme-[RELEASE].jar
'''
How do I get [RELEASE] ?
Please help ?

Answer 1

the [RELEASE] in this case is the version number you want to download the latest artifact for. To get that number you can use the REST API call for Artifact Latest Version Search Based on Layout. For example
GET /api/search/latestVersion?g=org.acme&a=artifact&repos=libs-snapshot-local
This would return a string of the latest release version you have.

Answer 2

You can follow the documentation at jfrog
#!/bin/bash
# Note that we don't enable the 'e' option, which would cause the script to
# immediately exit
set -uo pipefail
HOST=myartcloud.jfrog.io
USER=thisIsMyUser
PASS=thisismypass
SNAPSHOT_LAST_VERSION=$(curl --silent --show-error --fail \
-u$USER:"$PASS" \
-X POST https://$HOST/artifactory/api/search/aql \
-H "content-type: text/plain" \
-d 'items.find({ "repo": {"$eq":"my-repo-snapshot"}, "name": {"$match" : "my-project-package-name*"}})'\
| grep -E -o -e 'my-project-package-name-[[:digit:]].[[:digit:]].[[:digit:]]+'| uniq | sort | tail -1 \
| grep -E -o -e '[[:digit:]].[[:digit:]].[[:digit:]]+')
Explanation. Making usage of curl with option
--fail (HTTP) Fail silently (no output at all) on server errors. This is mostly done to better enable scripts etc to better deal with failed attempts.
--silent Silent or quiet mode. Don't show progress meter or error messages. Makes Curl mute.
--show-error When used with -s it makes curl show an error message if it fails.
Then a post request -X POST is made using basic authentication to the api path. The content type of the request is -H "content-type: text/plain".
-d, --data (HTTP) Sends the specified data in a POST request to the HTTP server, in the same way that a browser does when a user has filled in an HTML.
The data sent, is using a filter query to find an repository and also the content.
After the api results, using grep command line utility where it searches for PATTERNS and return only the version number.
Example: 0.1.1