Documentation for the Maven Repository Format

This is the layout for Maven Repositories and how they work. Use this document to help you improve pkgly 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.