Allow users to publish directly to a private repository

[dpennell]

This is a feature request so that those users that must use private repositories can use them instead of bintray or sonatype.

[jvican]

Hello @dpennell, a private repository located where? Bintray? Sonatype?

I've just added support for Sonatype. But I'm not planning to work on this. If you want to give it a shot, I'll provide you guidance and help.

[dpennell]

Oops, I missed all of the thread updates..

@jvican in my case, the private repository is an on-prem installation of artifactory.
My focus on this has been preempted for the moment - it will likely be a few weeks before I could work on a PR.

[jvican]

Cool @dpennell, I would welcome warmly such a contribution 😄.

Just to give me a little bit more of context: what kind of integration would you need? Isn't it enough to have sbt-sonatype support to publish to artifactory?

[jvican]

@dpennell Can you give more context on this ticket? Like, what would need to be added? Doesn't sbt-sonatype allow you to publish packages to your own artifactory repository? It may very well be the case that this feature is already supported, so I wanna find out what you meant.

[jvican]

I'm closing @dpennell. Whenever you feel like providing more info, we can reopen!

[nightscape]

We also have this scenario. I'm not deeply into either Artifactory or Sonatype, but would assume that they're using quite different protocols for releasing artifacts. Unfortunately I can't test thoroughly now 😞
Btw, why does sbt-release-early not just use the configured publishTo and credentials?
And would it maybe make sense to add some methods to the UnderlyingPublisher trait and override them in the case objects? That way one could create a new UnderlyingPublisher for e.g. Artifactory.

[jvican]

Absolutely, UnderlyingPublisher was meant to do that, and allow for that addition. However, there's an even easier solution: use the default SonatypePublisher and override publishTo and credentials. The rest should work.

[jvican]

Well, actually, no -- use BintrayPublisher which relies on publishSigned to do the right job. The sonatype publisher delegates to the specific sonatype command.

If that doesn't work, adding Artifactory to UnderlyingPublisher should work. Then, modify the parts of the code that assume that there are only two publishers and you're good to go.

[jvican]

@nightscape You finally interested in taking a stab at this?

[nightscape]

I've started slowly moving over to Mill as build tool, so I won't be of help here...