Proget: Gradle connector?

MaxCascone

I have connectors set up for Chocolatey, nuget, and Docker public feeds (docker isn't working). I would like to set up a connector to services.gradle.org so i can point my gradle builds' distributionUrl at a proget feed instead of the external feed. I don't see a gradle type in the connector setup pane, is there a way to do this?
Thanks!

atripp

Hi @mcascone ,

I'm almost certain that you can just set up a Maven feed/connector for this purpose -- please let us know, I'd love to update the docs to clarify.

You probaly won't be able to "see" the packages from searching (this requires an index that many repos don't have), but only navigating to artifacts directly.

Cheers,
Alana

MaxCascone

Hi, thanks. I'm not sure I've done it correctly, but it doesn't appear to be working.

I have the connector pointing at https://services.gradle.org/distributions/ and am using the connector in a new feed, public-gradle.

If I search for "gradle" it finds no matches.

I'm also getting a certificate error when running gradle, but i don't know if that's coming from my connection to proget or proget's connection to gradle.org.

Downloading https://proget.mycompany.com/maven2/public-gradle/gradle-7.3-bin.zip

Exception in thread "main" javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

atripp

Hi @mcascone

Looking closer, it doesn't appear that https://services.gradle.org/distributions/ is a maven repository after all (no folder structure, missing metadata xml files)? It looks just a regular web page (HTML) with links to files that can be downloaded (i.e. there's no API)

This seems like something you should make an asset directory for (but obviously a connector wouldn't be possible, since there's no API ). They probably just prepend distributionUrl to a known file name, like gradle-7.3-bin.zip?

The error is definitely related to the SSL/HTTPS connection from Java (Gradle) to IIS (ProGet). It's certainly something you need to configure in Java, but I'm afraid I have no idea how to do that -- it does seem to be a common question people ask about (found on Stack overflow -- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9210514/unable-to-find-valid-certification-path-to-requested-target-error-even-after-c)

After you fix that, you could make an asset directory probably. Please let us know, would be nice to document!

Cheers.
Alana

MaxCascone

That makes sense. Is there any way to import files into an Asset Dir from a URL - so I don't have to download the file and import it to ProGet manually?

atripp

Hi @mcascone,

We don't have that functionality in ProGet, but it should be pretty easy to do with a pair of Invoke-WebRequest PowerShell commands :)

You could probably parse/scrape the HTML and download / upload in bulk as well.

Please share the script if you end up doing that, it might be useful for other usecases as well!

Cheers,
Alana