Maven Indexer is broken for virtual repositories

Problem statement and Impact

Maven Indexer is broken for virtual repositories

Steps to reproduce the error

1. Create Maven repositories
2. Include Maven repositories under Artifactory UI > Admin > Services > Maven Indexer.
3. Press “Run indexing now”
4. View ‘libs-release’ or ‘libs-snapshot’

Expected results

Expected to see the ‘.index’ folder in the virtual repositories.

Actual results

The virtual repository doesn’t display the ‘.index’ folder and when manually downloading the nexus-maven-repository-index.gz via curl, and extracting the file, it shows the following content:

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DESCRIPTOR

NexusIndexIDXINFO1.0|libs-snapshot allGroups allGroups

allGroupsList

rootGroups

rootGroupsrootGroupsList