I have got an artifactory repository where snapshot builds are pushed. According to JFrog we can get the latest version of the snapshot build with simply referring to the logical *SNAPSHOT.jar which resolves to the latest snapshot version. But I am getting 404:
curl -u "foo:bar" https://artifactory.foo.bar/artifactory/libs-snapshot-local/foo/bar/baz/baz-integration/0.1-SNAPSHOT/baz-integration-0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
Listing the directory (note list) indicates there are two snapshots:
curl -u "foo:bar" https://artifactory.foo.bar/artifactory/list/libs-snapshot-local/foo/bar/baz/baz-integration/0.1-SNAPSHOT/
[...]
../ baz-integration-0.1-20190611.121035-1.jar 11-Jun-2019 12:10 18.85 MB baz-integration-0.1-20190611.121035-1.pom 11-Jun-2019 12:10 1.34 KB baz-integration-0.1-20190612.081950-2.jar 12-Jun-2019 08:19 18.85 MB baz-integration-0.1-20190612.081950-2.pom 12-Jun-2019 08:19 1.34 KB maven-metadata.xml 12-Jun-2019 08:19 781 bytes
[...]
Checked also the maven-metadata.xml file in folder 0-1.SNAPSHOT, it says that the latest buildNumber is 2 which seems to be correct.
<artifactId>baz-integration</artifactId>
<version>0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<versioning>
<snapshot>
<timestamp>20190612.081950</timestamp>
<buildNumber>2</buildNumber>[...]
Using artifactory 6.5.9 and pushing builds with gradle.
So, why 404?
This is caused by the license being the OSS. The support for retrieving the latest SNAPSHOT version is only supported in the PRO version.