Browsing Repositories

Browse the contents of any repository or repository group for supported repository formats. This feature may be accessed by selecting browse from the left navigation. Users with the nx-repository-view privilege may access the left navigation item.

Select a repository to view a navigable tree containing the assets in the repository. Filter the tree content, expand nodes, and select components or assets for more detail. Nodes in the tree are sorted in case-insensitive order. Versions are sorted semantically.

Note
UI is limited to showing a max of 10,000 components per level for performance.

Information View

When selecting a component or asset the information view appears on the right. The information in this view is the same as the asset and component information views for search but laid out as a series of scrolling panels instead of separate tabs. Additionally, in Sonatype Nexus Repository Pro, there will also be a scrolling panel named Component Tags that will present tags information in the same manner as when viewing tag information in the search results view.

Note
When you browse a Docker repository and select an image tag, the Sonatype Lifecycle Component panel might display the message Vulnerability data is not available for this component. Unsupported format: docker. This is expected behaviour. Docker images are collections of many components rather than a single component, so they do not fit the single-component view used by this panel. The panel is also designed to evaluate components in the context of a Lifecycle application, which is not available on Firewall-only IQ Server licenses, even though the panel can still appear in the Browse view.

HTML View

To view and browse a repository and its contents through a simple HTML view, select the HTML View link at the top of the browse tree.

This opens a simple HTML view of the given repository; its corresponding web service endpoint (URL) is available in the address bar.

Security Details

In the event you do not want to give your users nx-repository-view-* permission to browse, there are several options available.

• Read gives the ability to access the contents of the repository via client tools, REST, curl and the like. It does not give any UI permissions (e.g. you cannot see the Browse left nav item with just this permission).

• Browse gives the ability to access the UI Browse feature via the left navigation and the see details of contents and download as described above. This permission is also used in search as well.

• Add gives the ability to send a POST request to upload content. This does not provide access through the UI.

• Edit gives the ability to send a PUT request to upload content. This does not provide access through the UI.

• Delete gives the ability to delete content from repositories but adding and editing creation is not allowed. Note, this does not give the ability to see the contents so Read or Browse will be needed in addition, depending on the delete method being used.

The stars in nx-repository-view-*-*-* represent format, repository, and permissions, * being inclusive of all values.

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