Publishing from SBT to CloudBees

As I'm a massive CloudBees fan, I'm starting to use more and more of their offerings. I've got a number of Play! Framework 2.1 apps (Scala flavour, natch) hosted up there and they Just Work, but I wanted to write a Scala library on Github and push it up to a CloudBees-hosted Maven repo for general consumption.

SBT is a nice tool for developing Scala, and will happily publish to a Nexus or other such Maven/Ivy repository, but CloudBees is a little trickier than that, because it's best suited to hosting CloudBees-built stuff (i.e. the output of their Jenkins-In-The-Cloud builds).

Their support for uploading "external" dependencies is limited to the WebDAV protocol only - a protocol that SBT doesn't natively speak. Luckily, some excellent person has minimised the yak-shaving required by writing a WebDAV SBT plugin - here's how I got it working for my build:

In project/plugins.sbt, add the WebDAV plugin:

resolvers += "DiversIT repo" at "http://repository-diversit.forge.cloudbees.com/release"

addSbtPlugin("eu.diversit.sbt.plugin" % "webdav4sbt" % "1.3")

To avoid plastering your CloudBees credentials all over Github, create a file in ~/.ivy2/.credentials:

realm={account} repository
host=repository-{account}.forge.cloudbees.com
user={account}
password=

Where {account} is the value you see in the drop-down at the top right when you login to CloudBees Grand Central. Don't forget the Realm, this is just as important as the username/password!

Next, add this to the top of your build.sbt:

import eu.diversit.sbt.plugin.WebDavPlugin._

and this later on:

credentials += Credentials(Path.userHome / ".ivy2" / ".credentials")

seq(WebDav.globalSettings : _*)

publishTo := Some("Cloudbees releases" at "https://repository-{account}.forge.cloudbees.com/"+ "release")

What this does: The first line tells SBT where to find that credentials file we just added.
The second line makes the webdav:publish task replace the default publish task, which is most-likely what you want. If it's not, use WebDav.scopedSettings and invoke the task with webdav:publish.
The third line specifies where to publish to, replacing all other targets. I found if I used the notation in the WebDAV plugin documentation:

publishTo <<= version { v: String =>
  val cloudbees = "https://repository-diversit.forge.cloudbees.com/"
  if (v.trim.endsWith("SNAPSHOT"))
    Some("snapshots" at cloudbees + "snapshot")
  else
    Some("releases" at cloudbees + "release")
}

...SBT would attempt to upload my artifact to not-just CloudBees, but any other extra repository I had configured with the resolvers expression higher up in build.sbt, and hence try and upload to oss.sonatype.org, which I'm not ready for just yet! "Releases" is sufficient for me, I don't need the "snapshots" option.

And with that, it should just work like a charm:

> publish
[info] WebDav: Check whether (new) collection need to be created.
[info] WebDav: Found credentials for host: repository-{account}.forge.cloudbees.com
[info] WebDav: Creating collection 'https://repository-{account}.forge.cloudbees.com/release/net'
[info] WebDav: Creating collection 'https://repository-{account}.forge.cloudbees.com/release/net/foo'
[info] WebDav: Creating collection 'https://repository-{account}.forge.cloudbees.com/release/net/foo/bar_2.9.2'
[info] WebDav: Creating collection 'https://repository-{account}.forge.cloudbees.com/release/net/foo/bar_2.9.2/0.1'
[info] WebDav: Done.
...
[info]  published bar_2.9.2 to https://repository-{account}.forge.cloudbees.com/release/net/foo/bar_2.9.2/0.1/bar_2.9.2-0.1.pom
[info]  published bar_2.9.2 to https://repository-{account}.forge.cloudbees.com/release/net/foo/bar_2.9.2/0.1/bar_2.9.2-0.1.jar
[info]  published bar_2.9.2 to https://repository-{account}.forge.cloudbees.com/release/net/foo/bar_2.9.2/0.1/bar_2.9.2-0.1-sources.jar
[info]  published bar_2.9.2 to https://repository-{account}.forge.cloudbees.com/release/net/foo/bar_2.9.2/0.1/bar_2.9.2-0.1-javadoc.jar