Please follow the below steps to deploy RPi Java API Provider implementation to Artifact repositories from Jenkins job

1.Creating Jenkins job

• From Jenkins, select “New Item”,
  
• Specify name of the new job to be created.
• Select ‘OK’ button.

2. Configuration of Jenkins Job

Configure General Settings

• In ‘General’ settings, add proper description in the ‘Description’ section
• Check ‘Discard old builds’ checkbox

Configure Source Code Management

• In ‘Source Code Management’, select git and under ‘Repository’ add the repo detail

 eg : ‘https://code.rdkcentral.com/r/rdk/tools/automatics/rpi-provider/java-handler’ and also add the repo credentials

• Also add the branch of the repository in ‘Branches to build’
  
  

  eg : */rdk-next

  

Configure Build Triggers

• In build triggers section select ‘Poll SCM’ and enter the schedule. By this configuration, there will be a polling to the repo for any changes periodically and if there are any changes then the Jenkins build will be executed
  

  Eg : @hourly means the job will check for any changes in the remote repo for every 1 hour and if there are any changes, then the build will run

  

Configure Build Environment

• In ‘Build Environment’, select ‘Delete workspace before build starts’
  

Configure Build Settings

• In the ‘Build’ settings, Click on ‘Add build step’ and Select ‘Invoke top-level Maven level targets’

• Add the following maven step in the text box
  clean deploy -DaltDeploymentRepository=<id>::default::<Artifact repository path>
  altDeploymentRepository – Specifies an alternative repository to which the project artifacts should be deployed
• Click on Advanced button in ‘Invoke top-level Maven level targets’ and add following maven configuration. In the image shown below, maven settings.xml is place at /mnt/maven directory.  Update the settings.xml path based on its location in partner's VM.

           Reference - https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-deploy-plugin/deploy-mojo.html

Save the Configuration

• Click on ‘Apply’ and ‘Save’