jar-via-http.md

Jar (via HTTP)

If you have external jars that need downloaded into your project, you can use the jar: endpoint to download them. The jar endpoint does not expect the jars to be contained in a zip file or to have a box.json. As such, there is no real package slug or name, so CommandBox will "guess" the name based on the name of the jar (if a jar name appears in the path or query string).

install jar:http://site.com/path/to/file.jar
install "jar:https://github.com/coldbox-modules/cbox-bcrypt/blob/master/modules/bcrypt/models/lib/jbcrypt.jar?raw=true"
install "jar:https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=jline/jline/3.0.0.M1/jline-3.0.0.M1.jar"

Installation path

Files from the jar: endpoint will be placed in a lib/ folder by default unless you provide another folder for installation.

In box.json

You can specify jars as dependencies in your box.json in this format.

{
    "dependencies":{
        "jline-3.0.0.M1":"jar:https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=jline/jline/3.0.0.M1/jline-3.0.0.M1.jar"
    }
}

Note this installation method does not include any dependencies of the jar like a Maven installation would. That will be a future endpoint.