def uploadArtifact(
        api_dest,
        repository,
        username,
        password,
        groupId,
        artifactId,
        version,
        path,
        assets
        ):

    params = (
        ('repository', repository),
    )

    files = {
      'maven2.groupId': (None, groupId),
      'maven2.artifactId': (None, artifactId),
      'maven2.version': (None, version),
      'maven2.generate-pom': (None, 'false')
    }

    i = 1

    while i <= len(assets):
        asset_key = "maven2.asset" + str(i)
        asset_extension_key = "maven2.asset" + str(i) + ".extension"
        asset_value = str(path + assets[i - 1])
        asset_extension_value = assets[i - 1].split('.')[-1]
        files.update({asset_key: (asset_value, open(asset_value, 'rb'))})
        files.update({asset_extension_key: (None, asset_extension_value)})
        i += 1

    # print(files)

    response = requests.post(
                 api_dest + "/v1/components",
                 params=params,
                 files=files,
                 auth=requests.auth.HTTPBasicAuth(username, password)