Question How to make custom packages from GCP Artifactory show up to browse them

I just got my GCP Artifact Registry setup as an NPM service and I'm able to both deploy and install Unity packages now (transfering everything over from JFrog as my free account will be sunset soon).

The only thing I'm missing right now is the ability to see all the packages I have under my registry and install them directly. If I add them via their package id it works as expected but just like my assets or Unity's own packages I'd like to be able to see all my packages in the package manager before they are installed

Here's what it looks like in a test project with just one of them installed (note, this is the GameConsole project hence why it says Custom here, the custom registry is setup in the same way as the main project though)
And what it looks like with the main project with both packages installed in the main project (the GCP in the name is just because I am transfering between JFrog and GCP atm)

The packages are fully available but as you can see for the top one it doesn't show the RemoteConfigHelpers package in the list as an available package, how could I get this to show up?

I'm authenticated through a GCP service account that has the Artifact Registry Reader role so I would imagine it to show all the packages through the artifactregistry.npmpackages.list permission but they don't seem to show up. The repository is setup as a regular NPM repository on a single region.

How can I get my packages to show up within having to be manually added first?

Oh I just tried to refresh and got this error:

Access to 'REDACTED/megamileystudios/internal-unity-packages/-/all' was denied

After some more investigating, it seems that /-/all has been deprecated back in 2017, https://blog.npmjs.org/post/157615772423/deprecating-the-all-registry-endpoint and /-/v1/search should now be used instead, odd that Unity is still calling such an old endpoint

 

Hey there, yeah the issue with the /-/all being called was due to my credentials expiring (GCP auth tokens have a 1 hour expiration to them), I fixed this by creating a custom PackageManager extension and refreshing the token every 50 minutes when I'm accessing the Package Manager (I'm using the package selected event and a EditorPrefs integer with the last refresh time to keep track of that).

The /v1/search is working as expected most likely but I don't see any packages that I haven't installed yet which is what I do want to see in my package manager. Is there something I can do to enable showing all not yet installed packages?

 

I do see the My Registries in the PackMan window (also part of the screenshots I send at the start of this post), and when I look at my upm.log file I see some errors when my auth token has expired but once I authenticate again (this is in a project wihtout the code to re-authenticate automatically) those all go away.

There doesn't seem to be any error/issue in terms of listing the packages, it just doesn't seem to list them all including the ones that aren't installed at the moment

The excat log entries after I did a refresh look like this:

 

Had a look and it does seem like Google's NPM artifact is to blame here, I created a separate thread on StackOverflow to see what might be the issue on Google's side.

Note that if I call https://artifactregistry.googleapis...est1/repositories/REPOSITORY_NAME/npmPackages with the right authentication credentials it does return all the packages and their version numbers, but that obviously doesn't go through the standard NPM API

 

When I add that `/-` to the URL I just end up with a 404 HTML page rather than a regular API response. Also when I remove the REPOSITORY_NAME and just use the `-` there it says that it can't find the repository `-` rather than it not finding the requested entity within it. I've tried different variations as well but none of them seem to work.

The `gcloud artifacts files list` command does work and shows all the packages and their versions that are available but it just seems that the NPM api isn't working.

 

Aha, that's unfortunate. As a workaround then, is there any way for me to provide extra information to the Package Manager so that I can show all the packages through running the `gcloud artifacts list` command locally? Or would I be better off creating a custom UI for this through a sort of "core" package? (I'll likely need to create such a package anyways given the authentication window of 1 hour before needing to re-authenticate)

 

Just made the feature request, guess I'll be creating a custom simple UI for this for now