Copy Artifact Plugin

Can you provide usage instructions for this plugin? Especially what syntax to use for complex environments like multi-configuration projects.

The new version 1.5 also fails a build, if no artifacts were copied because all formerly copied artifacts were still there and up to date.

Thank you for this very useful plugin!

Just one question: Is it possible to select the project by build parameter, too? I have very large test data (> 10GB) and more than one configuration for building my binaries (e.g. Release jobs). If I can select the project by build parameter I would need only one test job (and not 10GB diskspace for every testjob ;-) )

Thank you very much!

If you are trying to copy automatically archived artifacts from a Maven build, you need to refer to the module as JOBNAME/MODULENAME.

See http://issues.hudson-ci.org/browse/HUDSON-6355 or the help for project name.

Thought it would be worth mentioning here, since it took myself a bit of time to find it.

Is it possible to modify the pathing of the artifacts to be copied? I have a Flex build that puts its output into a target folder in the workspace, build/flex-build. Underneath that folder, there's some various Flex support files, framework libraries, our portal control, then some folders like com/ourcompany/project1, com/ourcompany/project2, etc. Each of the project1, project2 folders contains a number of Flex SWFs.

When the Flex build completes, in the Post-build Actions, I check Archive the artifacts, then in the Files to archive box I put: build/flex-build/**. That ends up archiving everything in there properly, but it has the build/flex-build path at the beginning of it.

The problem really bites me when I try to use copy artifact to copy these into my Java build. I have a web app with a /flex folder. What I really want is everything in build/flex-build to be copied into my flex folder. So for Artifacts to copy, I specify build/flex-build/*, then for *Target directory I specify the path to the flex folder in the Java build.

But instead of getting the contents of the flex-build folder copied into the flex web app folder, what I get is the top-level build folder in the flex folder, meaning that all the stuff I want in /flex is actually two levels down.

So is there any way to say I want to use these artifacts starting at this folder level? Or something like that?

I think in the short-term I'm going to have to modify the build out folder for the Flex build, but if I'm missing something, please inform me!

Did you ever tried to copy a 50MB binary file? It fails every time:

http://hudson.pastebin.com/e4cw49zg

I really like this plugin, but cannot get it to work with matrix projects.. Tried all options but I always get 'copied 0 artifacts'.

project A has axes x and y
project B has the same axes

Any pointers on this? Should I create an issue? It doesn't seem that hard to implement (at least, not when A and B have the same axes..)
Right now I have to use the cumbersome

wget http://server/job/dlls/lastSuccessfulBuild/configuration=%configuration%,platform=%platform%/artifact/*zip*/art.zip
7za x art.zip
copy archive_bin*.* _bin\
rmdir /Q /S archive
del art.zip

I want to use the Copy Artifact plugin in connection with the Promoted Builds plugin, but it seems like my use case isn't covered yet, or I miss something fundamental. The problem scenario is described in the following thread:

http://hudson.361315.n4.nabble.com/How-to-promote-artifacts-of-a-previous-build-td3038590.html#a3038590

In essence, I want to retrieve the artifacts of the build being promoted in order to push them elsewhere (say to an FTP server, or whatever). This sounded to me like the perfect combination of three plugins in order: promoted-build, copy-artifact and ftppublisher. My problem is that I can't find a way to tell the copy-artifact plugin for which build I want to get the artifacts. All I have, from the promoted-builds plugin, is a reference to the build itself, via $PROMOTED_URL. Would it make sense to add a function to copy-artifacts so it could consume the $PROMOTED_URL information supplied by the promoted-build plugin?

Currently, I have to write custom steps in the build promotion logic for retrieving the wanted artifacts (using wget) -- thus in effect not using the copy-artifacts plugin at all, which is a pity.

I used this plugin before and it worked great. But in a new job it is not working.

I'm getting the following error.
ERROR: Failed to copy artifacts from EVEREST.MAIN with filter: EVEREST/MAIN/EVEREST.MAIN.BLD.*.MashupGenome.tar.gz 
hudson.util.IOException2: hudson.util.IOException2: Not in GZIP format

The file that should be copied is 110MB
In older versions of hudson, I've had this plugin copy many larger files without a problem.

I'm not sure why I'm getting a gzip error for copying a binary file
Any ideas on how to fix this would be appreciated

Hello,

how can I copy the "main" artifacts from another job? I can copy the artifacts from an sepcified module and from all modules. But I didn't find a valid input to copy the artifacts that I see on the main site of the job.

Thanks,

 Leo

Hi all,

I'm using the Copy Artifacts plugin simply to gather daily-build artifacts from various jobs together into a single location, and it's working well for that.

One small problem, though, is that artifacts from previous daily builds aren't deleted before the Copy Artifacts steps begin, which means that old files tend to build up in the artifacts directory, which I want to avoid.

Is there some way to tell my job to delete any existing artifacts before copying in the new ones?

Thanks,
Jeremy

I am using this plugin for the first time. When it runs, I get the following error message:Unable to access workspace for artifact copy. Slave node offline?

I have a very simple hudson setup and there are no 'slave nodes'.

Any ideas on what is causing this error?