Groovy script for Nexus 3 to purge old releases

purge-nexus.groovy

import org.sonatype.nexus.repository.storage.StorageFacet;
import org.sonatype.nexus.repository.storage.Query;
import org.joda.time.DateTime;
import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormat;

def fmt = DateTimeFormat.forPattern('yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss');
[
  'releases'
].each { reponame ->
  // Get a repository
  def repo = repository.repositoryManager.get(reponame);
  // Get a database transaction
  def tx = repo.facet(StorageFacet).txSupplier().get();

  // Search assets that haven't been downloaded for more than two months
  try {
    // Begin the transaction
    tx.begin();
    tx.findAssets(Query.builder()
        .where('last_downloaded <')
        .param(DateTime.now().minusMonths(2).toString(fmt))
        .build(), [repo]).take(10000).each { asset ->
      if (asset.componentId() != null) {
        def component = tx.findComponent(asset.componentId());
        if (component != null) {
          def count = tx.countComponents(Query.builder().where('name').eq(component.name()).and('version >').param(component.version()).build(), [repo]);
          // Check if there is newer components of the same name
          if (count > 0) {
            log.info("Delete asset ${asset.name()} and its component as it has not been downloaded since 2 months and has a newer version")
            tx.deleteAsset(asset);
            tx.deleteComponent(component);
          }
        } else {
          log.info("Delete Asset ${asset.name()} wasn't downloaded for more than 2 months, I hope we dont' need it anymore even if this is the only version.")
          tx.deleteAsset(asset);
        }
      }
    }

    // End the transaction
    log.info("Committing deletes...")
    tx.commit();
    log.info("Committing deletes done.")
  } catch (all) {
    log.info("Exception: ${all}")
    all.printStackTrace()
    log.info("Rolling back changes...")
    tx.rollback()
    log.info("Rollback done.")
  } finally {
    tx.close();
    log.info("Transaction closed.")
  }
}

Original: https://gist.github.com/tgagor/f904221d888c8daaad679cf99c407aef by @tgagor

Good evening,

I am not able to pass the repository to perform the cleaning, could you help me?

How does this script clean these components?

Thank you