Get a nexus artifact as a dependency in gradle? - gradle

Question

I have the following nexus artifact :
com/companyName/my-awesome-util/0.0.0/my-awesome-util-0.0.0.jar
and I just have absolutely no clue how to get it within my gradle build file. I have googled it, followed examples, and I just cannot get it to work. I come from the maven world, and I just need to get this one thing to work so that I can at least understand what the hell I need to do in future.

Answer 1

First, add a repository in your build.gradle:
repositories {
maven { url 'http://nexus.acme.corp' }
}
Then, refer to that artifact:
dependencies {
compile 'com.companyName:my-awesome-util:0.0.0'
}
That's basically it!
If your Nexus is secured by credentials, use this snippet:
repositories {
maven {
url 'http://nexus.acme.corp'
credentials {
username = 'darth'
password = 'vader'
}
}
}

Answer 2

Add some Nexus maven2 proxy repositories with the following remote storage urls each:
https://jcenter.bintray.com/
https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/
https://maven.google.com/ # used to download com.android.tools.build:gradle
https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/
And then add them into a meven2 group repository, named such as maven-public:
And then use this group repo's url in your file build.gradle:
buildscript {
repositories {
google()
mavenCentral()
// jcenter()
maven {
// url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/"
url "https://YOUR-NEXUS-URL.com/repository/maven-public/"
}
}
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allprojects {
repositories {
buildscript {
apply from: 'dependencies.gradle'
repositories {
google()
mavenCentral()
// jcenter()
maven {
// url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/"
url "https://YOUR-NEXUS-URL.com/repository/maven-public/"
}
}
}
}