How to delete artifacts with classifier from Nexus using REST API?

Question

I know how to delete a whole GAV using this command :

curl --request DELETE --user "login:password" http://myNexus/service/local/repositories/myRepository/content/myGroupId/myArtifactId/myVersion

It works like a charm.

Now I need to just delete an artifact with a classifier, I could not find or read a solution for this.

I wonder if there is a way to delete an artifact with a classifier using the Nexus REST API ?

Solution

To delete an specific artifact, use this command:

curl --request DELETE --user "login:password" http://myNexus/service/local/repositories/myRepository/content/myGroupId/myArtifactId/myVersion/myArtifactId-myVersion.jar

You need then to ask nexus to rebuild metadata for the gav (otherwise the *.md5 and *.sha1 files will stay on you repository)

curl -v --request DELETE  --user "login:password"  --silent http://nexusHost/service/local/metadata/repositories/myRepository/content

Comments

[neuralmer]

For larger repositories, it might be useful to narrow the metadata that is rebuilt by specifying the particular section of the repository in the URL. For example: http://nexusHost/service/local/metadata/repositories/myRepos‌​itory/content/com/my‌​Company/myProduct/ar‌​tifactName.