How can I tell gradle to execute uploadArchives on a SNAPSHOT release? - maven

Question

I have the following in my build.gradle:
uploadArchives {
repositories {
mavenDeployer {
configuration = configurations.deployerJars
String keyFile = "/Users/myusername/.ssh/maven#myhost"
repository(url: "scp://myhost.com/var/maven/repository") {
authentication(userName: "maven", privateKey: keyFile)
}
}
}
}
This works great - with one caveat: It only uploads release builds. I know that I can specify snapshotRepository to get it to upload snapshots, but what I really want is to know how to invoke this behavior. I would like my snapshots to go to the same repo as the release builds (which I think is the default behavior), but when I do:
./gradlew uploadArchives or ./gradlew assembleDebug uploadArchives
it first builds the release buildType, and uploads this. How can I tell uploadArchives I want it to upload the snapshot build (i.e. debug)?

Answer 1

you need to put you versionName with -SNAPSHOT
android {
compileSdkVersion 22
buildToolsVersion "22.0.1"
defaultConfig {
minSdkVersion 15
targetSdkVersion 22
versionCode 1
versionName "1.0-SNAPSHOT"
}
}
uploadArchives {
repositories.mavenDeployer {
snapshotRepository(url: '.../snapshots') {
authentication(userName: NULL_NEXUS_USER, password: NULL_NEXUS_PWD)
}
repository(url: '.../releases') {
authentication(userName: NULL_NEXUS_USER, password: NULL_NEXUS_PWD)
}
and then ./gradlew clean build uploadFiles will upload it to snaphots repository.

Answer 2

It took me some googling to find a solution so leaving this here for others:
You can make a new task dependent on the uploadArchives task but check the version and remove the dependsOn and disable the task if not a snapshot eg:
task uploadSnapshotArchives(dependsOn: uploadArchives) {
if (!version.endsWith("-SNAPSHOT")) {
enabled = false;
dependsOn = [];
}
}