Azure Artifact Publishing Fails for Artifact Version Containing '+'

I have been trying to publish an artifact of a java module (jar) to Azure Artifact and was getting an error 404. After debugging for a while i have realised my semantic version was breaking the URL.

1.0.2-beta1+20191202

The + indicates meta data as part of the semantic version syntax. At the same time he + breaks the URL that Azure creates to upload the artifact.

Here is a sample of the URL that Azure creates:

https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/MYCOMPANY/_packaging/test/maven/v1/com/MYCOMPANY/test/1.0.22+0110-SNAPSHOT/test-1.0.22+0110000-20102.29-1.jar'

The pluses in the version are causing a 404 error to happen.

Seems like a missing feature but would appreciate if there is a workaround meanwhile this is actually addressed.

Solution

Azure Artifact Publishing Fails for Artifact Version Containing '+'

I am afraid there is no such solution/workaround to resolve this issue at this moment.

I got the same 404 error if I Publish Artifact with + in the URL. Take long time but did not find any solution/workaround for this issue until I found this ticket:

The Azure Artifacts Engineering replied:

Due to technical limitations in our service's web stack, we cannot currently support + signs in URL paths. As such, we do not currently support SemVer build metadata (+ suffix) in some package types such as Maven.

I have to accept this technical limitation if I want to continue using Azure Artifacts.

Hope this help you.