Deploying the Android AAR library for Artifactory through the Gradle construct with the error "Error deploying artifact: file transfer error"

Question

When I run ./gradlew uploadArchives to deploy the library artifact to the Artifactory server, I get the following error:

 Uploading: com/example/android-lib/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/android-lib-1.0.0-20150311.112243-1.aar to repository remote at http://artifactory:8081/artifactory/libs-snapshot-local Transferring 3787K from remote Error writing to server android-lib:uploadArchives FAILED FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':android-lib:uploadArchives'. > Could not publish configuration 'archives' > Error deploying artifact 'com.example:android-lib:aar': Error deploying artifact: Error transferring file 

On the server, according to my understanding from the log, we get error 401. Here is the log:

 20150311144749|2|REQUEST|192.168.148.66|myuser|PUT| /libs-snapshot-local/com/example/android-lib/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/android-lib-1.0.0-20150311.112243-1.aar|HTTP/1.1|401|3878210 

I have the following build.gradle:

 buildscript { repositories { jcenter() } dependencies { classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.1.+' classpath 'com.github.dcendents:android-maven-plugin:1.2' } } repositories { jcenter() } apply plugin: 'com.android.library' apply plugin: 'maven' apply plugin: 'com.github.dcendents.android-maven' version = "1.0.0-SNAPSHOT" group = "com.example" android { compileSdkVersion 21 buildToolsVersion "21.1.2" defaultConfig { minSdkVersion 17 targetSdkVersion 21 versionCode 1 versionName version } buildTypes { release { minifyEnabled false proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro' } } } dependencies { compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:21.0.2' } uploadArchives { configuration = configurations.archives repositories { mavenDeployer { repository(url: 'http://artifactory:8081/artifactory/libs-snapshot-local') { authentication(userName: artifactoryUsername, artifactoryPassword) } pom.project { name 'android-lib' description 'cool lib' scm { developerConnection '<repo url>' } } } } } 

Answer 1

Part of the authentication seems to be broken - the password is not transmitted correctly.
It should be:

 repository(url: 'http://artifactory:8081/artifactory/libs-snapshot-local') { authentication(userName: artifactoryUsername, password: artifactoryPassword) }