Artifactory AQL download artifact

Question

Is there a way to download an artifact using AQL?

I have a query sent with:

curl -u user:pass \
-X POST https://artifactoryURL/artifactory/api/search/aql \
-H 'content-type: text/plain' \
-T query.aql

And my query.aql:

items.find(
    {
        "repo":{"$eq":"repo"},
        "$and": [
          {
            "path": { "$match": "path/*"},
            "name": { "$match": "*.rpm"}
          }
        ]
    }
)
.sort({ "$desc": ["modified"] })
.limit(1)

Now that I know it returns what I want, Is there a way to change the request from api/search/aql to something like api/download/aql and get those items?

EDIT:

I had also tried doing this with the jfrog cli but they don't fully support AQL there (sort and limit didn't work).

This is the command I tried:

jfrog rt s --spec=query-aql.json

And the spec that failed to sort and limit results:

{
  "files": [
    {
      "aql": {
        "items.find": {
          "repo": "repo",
          "$and": [
            {
              "path": { "$match": "path/*"},
              "name": { "$match": "*.rpm"}
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "sort": {
        "$asc": ["modified"]
      },
      "limit": 1
    }
  ]
}

EDIT 2:

Added a jfrog-cli-go issue: https://github.com/JFrogDev/jfrog-cli-go/issues/56

Answer 1

An easy way to use your aql script to download files from artifactory is to use the JFrog cli as mention here : https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/CLI/CLI+for+JFrog+Artifactory#CLIforJFrogArtifactory-Download,CopyandMoveCommandsSpecSchema

The cli can be downloaded as an executable for linux, mac or windows and should fit your needs

With the curl command the only thing you can do is then to parse the result from your aql query and perform download request for each file.

Answer 2

I was just looking for a very similar thing -- use a download spec file to download the latest artifact from a given repo and path. I don't care if I use AQL or not, I just want it in the download-spec.json file. If you go to the link above look at Example 5.

Modified for your example:

{
  "files": [
  {
    "pattern": "path/*.rpm",
    "target": "my/download/path/",
    "sortBy": "created",
    "sortOrder": "desc",
    "limit": 1,
  }
  ]
}

Answer 3

jfrog cli supports --limit, --sort-order, and --sort-by arguments.

The following works for me:

jfrog rt search --spec=/tmp/jfrogfilespec.json --sort-by created --sort-order=desc --limit 1 

The contents of the json spec file are:

{ "files": [ { "aql": { "items.find": { "repo":{"$eq":"my-release-repo"}, "name":{"$match":"my-artifact-prefix*"} } } } ] }

This generates the following query (according to debug mode):

items.find( { "repo":{"$eq":"my-release-repo"}, "name":{"$match":"my-artifact-prefix*"} } ).include("name","repo","path","actual_md5","actual_sha1","size","type","created").sort({"$desc":["created"]}).limit(1)

What is frustrating is that I cannot seem to find a way to use "jfrog rt search" with a filespec that allows me to influence the "include" modifier portion of the search.