Currently, we support the following resolvers for npm dependencies on git:
git+ssh://user@hostname:project.git#commit-ish git+ssh://user@hostname/project.git#commit-ish git+https://git@github.com/<user>/<filename>.git user/repository
However, some packages have the format "github:user/repository", such as jspdf, and its dependency file-saver:
"dependencies": {
"canvg": "1.5.3",
"file-saver": "github:eligrey/FileSaver.js#1.3.8",
"html2canvas": "1.0.0-alpha.12",
"omggif": "1.0.7",
"promise-polyfill": "8.1.0",
"stackblur-canvas": "2.2.0"
},
As you can see, there is a "github:" right before file-saver, which seems to confuse Artifactory, as when I enabled debug loggers:
2019-02-27 02:10:42,547 [http-nio-8081-exec-51] [DEBUG] (o.a.a.n.r.r.e.NpmDependencyFetcherFactory:51) - 'github:eligrey/FileSaver.js#1.3.8' is not a valid URL.
It does not try to resolve via Artifactory at all, and rewrite the dependency. It only goes through to github. I verified this by blocking resolution to github.com and received an error on the ls remote:
npm ERR! Error while executing: npm ERR! /usr/bin/git ls-remote -h -t ssh://git@github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js.git npm ERR! npm ERR! Host key verification failed. npm ERR! fatal: Could not read from remote repository. npm ERR! npm ERR! Please make sure you have the correct access rights npm ERR! and the repository exists. npm ERR! npm ERR! exited with error code: 128
and it will not cache in _external either. I tried creating a test package with the same dependency sans prefix:
$ cat package.json
{
"name": "file-saver-test",
"version": "1.0.1",
"description": "this is a package that pulls file-saver",
"main": "index.js",
"scripts": {
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
},
"dependencies": {
"file-saver": "eligrey/FileSaver.js#1.3.8"
},
"author": "",
"license": "ISC"
}
And tried resolving that from Artifactory, and it proved successful (file-saver's package.json snippet):
{
"_from": "file-saver@eligrey-FileSaver.js-1.3.8.tar.gz-art-external",
"_id": "file-saver@1.3.8",
"_inBundle": false,
"_integrity": "sha1-PJ+5uWOsJ/k3nsf7p02TfZJEeps=",
"_location": "/file-saver",
"_phantomChildren": {},
"_requested": {
"type": "tag",
"registry": true,
"raw": "file-saver@eligrey-FileSaver.js-1.3.8.tar.gz-art-external",
"name": "file-saver",
"escapedName": "file-saver",
"rawSpec": "eligrey-FileSaver.js-1.3.8.tar.gz-art-external",
"saveSpec": null,
"fetchSpec": "eligrey-FileSaver.js-1.3.8.tar.gz-art-external"
},
"_requiredBy": [
"/file-saver-test"
],
"_resolved": "http://localhost:8081/artifactory/api/npm/npm/_external/eligrey-FileSaver.js-1.3.8.tar.gz",
"_shasum": "3c9fb9b963ac27f9379ec7fba74d937d92447a9b",
"_spec": "file-saver@eligrey-FileSaver.js-1.3.8.tar.gz-art-external",
and we see it listed under the _external directory of our npm-remote-cache:
Index of npm-remote-cache/_external Name Last modified Size ../ eligrey-FileSaver.js-1.3.8.tar.gz 27-Feb-2019 08:03 26.74 KB json-schema-JSON-Schema-Test-Suite-master.tar.gz 27-Feb-2019 08:07 45.30 KB ronn-master 28-Feb-2019 01:00 19.78 KB rynomad-jsbn-master.tar.gz 27-Feb-2019 08:07 11.53 KB tc39-test262-18c1e799a01cc976695983b61e225ce7959bdd91.tar.gz 27-Feb-2019 08:06 3.99 MB tc39-test262-3bfad28cc302fd4455badcfcbca7c5bb7ce41a72.tar.gz 27-Feb-2019 08:06 4.09 MB tc39-test262-51553973738063f457e248f7f1e643c561c8a64c.tar.gz 27-Feb-2019 08:06 3.95 MB TreehouseJS-CSSStyleDeclaration-master.tar.gz 27-Feb-2019 08:06 27.11 KB
Unfortunately, we haven't been able to find a workaround yet, due to the fact that it is a dependency of a dependency, as it would require modification of the package.json, as described above, and remove the 'github' specifier for each dependency in order for it to work. We dove into the NPM documentation, https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#github-urls, and it does not explicitly say that "gitbub:user/package" is a legitimate syntax for dependency co-ordinates, but it is referenced online in passing, such as in this SO link:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23210437/npm-install-private-github-repositories-by-dependency-in-package-json
as well as the fact that the npm client is able to handle it. This was tested on a number of Artifactory versions, including 6.3.2, 6.7.3 and 6.8.3 (latest). To reproduce:
enable NPM dependency rewrites
block github.com access (optional)
npm install jspdf@1.5.3
see that file-saver is not cached in the _external repository
- is related to
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RTFACT-14806 NPM rewrite external dependencies does not support all semver expressions
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- Done
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- relates to
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RTFACT-12388 NPM rewrite external dependencies does not support all the possible shorthand resolvers
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