Central Repository Artifact Specification

The central repository manages third-party libraries in the form of artifacts. The following are important concepts regarding artifacts:

• Artifact Package: A source code archive, representing the smallest unit for storing a third-party library in the central repository. An artifact package has the following three key attributes:
  • Artifact Name: The name used to label the artifact package.
  • Artifact Version: The version number used to label the artifact package.
  • Organization Name (optional): The name used to label the organization to which the artifact package belongs. An artifact package may not belong to any organization.
• Artifact: The collection of all artifact package versions that share the same artifact name and organization name.
• Organization: A collaborative group that develops and maintains one or more artifacts. Artifact names must be unique within the same organization or among artifacts without an organization.

Note:

• Artifact names and organization names consist of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and underscores. Their length must be between 3 and 64 characters inclusive. They must start with a letter or one or more underscores. If starting with an underscore, the first non-underscore character must be a letter. For example: cangjie_demo_1, __Cangjie_Demo_2.
• Artifact names and organization names cannot be any keyword from the Cangjie syntax (case-insensitive), and an organization name cannot be default.
• The artifact version number format is Major.Minor.Patch. All three level numbers are natural numbers. For example: 0.1.2, 123.456.789.