No artifacts found that match the file pattern "** / target / *. Apk"

Question

I got this output from the Jenkins console while trying to compile an Android project: just notice that I did not make any changes to the main class this is the jenkins console:

[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 10.701s [INFO] Finished at: Thu May 29 17:56:45 CEST 2014 [INFO] Final Memory: 24M/491M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [JENKINS] Archiving /var/opt/jenkins/workspace/Android-Project-App/trunk/pom.xml to com.proj.android.project.mobile/project-android/0.0.1-SNAPSHOT/project-android-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.pom [JENKINS] Archiving /var/opt/jenkins/workspace/Android-Project-App/trunk/assets/build/project-android.apk to com.proj.android.project.mobile/project-android/0.0.1-20140529.155643-5/project-android-0.0.1-20140529.155643-5.apk [JENKINS] Archiving /var/opt/jenkins/workspace/Android-Project-App/trunk/assets/build/project-android.jar to com.proj.android.project.mobile/project-android/0.0.1-20140529.155643-5/project-android-0.0.1-20140529.155643-5.jar channel stopped Archiving artifacts ERROR: No artifacts found that match the file pattern "**/target/*.apk". Configuration error? ERROR: '**/target/*.apk' doesn't match anything: '**' exists but not '**/target/*.apk' Build step 'Archive the artifacts' changed build result to FAILURE IRC notifier plugin: Sending notification to: #jenkins Finished: FAILURE 

and this is my pom:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <parent> <groupId>com.proj</groupId> <artifactId>android</artifactId> <version>1.1-SNAPSHOT</version> </parent> <groupId>com.proj.android.project.mobile</groupId> <artifactId>project-android</artifactId> <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version> <packaging>apk</packaging> <name>project Android Application</name> <description>project mobile application for android client</description> <url>http://maven.apache.org</url> <issueManagement> <system>jira</system> <url>http://www/jira/browse/${jira.project.key}</url> </issueManagement> <scm> <connection>scm:svn:http://svn/android/project-mobile-app/trunk/</connection> <developerConnection>scm:svn:https://svn/android/project-mobile-app/trunk/</developerConnection> <url>http://svn/web/wsvn/android/project-mobile-app/</url> </scm> <dependencyManagement> <dependencies> <!-- Android dependencies --> <dependency> <groupId>android</groupId> <artifactId>android</artifactId> <scope>provided</scope> <version>4.0.3_r2</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>android</groupId> <artifactId>support-v4</artifactId> <version>r6</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>junit</groupId> <artifactId>junit</artifactId> <scope>test</scope> <version>${junit.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId> <artifactId>maven-plugin-api</artifactId> <version>3.1</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>bouncycastle</groupId> <artifactId>bcprov-jdk14</artifactId> <version>138</version> </dependency> <!-- <dependency> --> <!-- <groupId>com.proj.android.sample</groupId> --> <!-- <artifactId>pdf-viewer-ng</artifactId> --> <!-- <type>apklib</type> --> <!-- <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> --> <!-- </dependency> --> <dependency> <groupId>com.proj.project.client</groupId> <artifactId>project-client</artifactId> <version>${project-client.version}</version> </dependency> </dependencies> </dependencyManagement> <build> <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName> <sourceDirectory>build</sourceDirectory> <directory>${project.basedir}/assets/build</directory> <pluginManagement> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2</groupId> <artifactId>android-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.4</version> <configuration> <extractDuplicates>true</extractDuplicates> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </pluginManagement> </build> <properties> <android.version>4.0.3_r2</android.version> <android.sdk>15</android.sdk> <android.emulator.avd>AVD_15_4_0_3</android.emulator.avd> <jira.project.key>UNIAPPAND-1</jira.project.key> <junit.version>4.11</junit.version> <com.proj.project.client>1.0-SNAPSHOT</com.proj.project.client> </properties> </project> 

I think my problem came from the target directory because Jenkins mentioned it. I had 3 directories in jenkins: assets, res et src Should I add more of these three folders? e.g. libs or target?

Answer 1

Step Archive artifacts after assembly do not care about your POM. All he does is search for files in the workspace folder, i.e. $WORKSPACE (also available via http://[jenkins-url]/job/[job-name]/ws ) and archiving in the Jenkin build history.

The files you are trying to archive must exist in $WORKSPACE . From your configuration, you are trying to archive **/target/*.apk , which means "on any path, target folder with any file and the extension .apk ". He cannot find this, since your workspace does not have a target folder anywhere, therefore ERROR: '**/target/*.apk' doesn't match anything: '**' exists but not '**/target/*.apk'

In your POM file, you have the following line: <directory>${project.basedir}/assets/build</directory>
This is what determines where your embedded files are. This is [base-dir-of-pom]/assets/build , not target .

Also create your console log:
[JENKINS] Archiving /var/opt/jenkins/workspace/Android-Project-App/trunk/assets/build/project-android.apk
Which once again proves that your .apk artifact is actually located in trunk/assets/build

For your artifact archive file you need to use:
**/assets/build/*.apk

And in fact, you can only use:
**/build/*.apk or even
**/*.apk

But the question arises: do you really want to archive artifacts on Jenkins (which takes up space) when you are already archiving artifacts from Maven?