create-nexus-staging-repo Github Action

This action creates a new staging repo so that you can upload all your files without having multiple implicit repos being created and your files in different places

How to use it

Here is an example of how to use this action in your workflows.

jobs:
  create_staging_repository:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Create staging repository
    outputs:
      repository_id: ${{ steps.create.outputs.repository_id }}
    steps:
      - id: create
        # replace '@main' with the latest commit sha, see https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/security-hardening-for-github-actions#using-third-party-actions

        uses: nexus-actions/create-nexus-staging-repo@main
        with:
          username: ${{ secrets.SONATYPE_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.SONATYPE_PASSWORD }}
          staging_profile_id: ${{ secrets.SONATYPE_PROFILE_ID }}
          description: ${{ github.repository }}/${{ github.workflow }}#${{ github.run_number }}

The different arguments are:

• username: Your Sonatype username, same the Sonatype Jira one
• password: Your Sonatype password, same the Sonatype Jira one
• staging_profile_id: Your staging profile ID. You can get it at https://oss.sonatype.org/#stagingProfiles;$staginProfileId
• base_url: The url of your nexus repository, default to OSSRH (https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/)
• [description]: A description to identify the newly created repository ; default value='Created with Github Actions'

See the nexus-actions-demo repo for more details and use cases.

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This action is brought to you by ...

• Martin Bonnin from Apollo GraphQL
• Romain Boisselle from Kodein Koders