Documentation for the Maven Repository Format

This is the layout for Maven Repositories and how they work. Use this document to help you improve nitro_repo or even make your own repository

Deploying

Maven Deploying is done by sending a PUT request to the location of the file.

[PUT] {BASE_PATH}/repositories/{storage}/{repository}/{fileName}

File Name being the path of the location.

The groupId is turned into a path so com.example would be com/example and then they add the artifactId and version to the end. So if you have a file that is com.example:example:1.0.0 the path would be com/example/example/1.0.0

Authentication

Maven uses the basic authentication method. This is done by sending the header Authorization: Basic base64("{username}:{password}")

Downloading

Maven downloading is done by sending a GET request to the location of the file.

[GET] {BASE_PATH}/repositories/{storage}/{repository}/{fileName}

Authentication

If the repository is private then the repository should send a WWW-Authenticate header and will let the client know that it needs to authenticate.

It will use the same basic authentication method as deploying.