Plugin Store version check API

Post by **jay (support)** » Tue Feb 20, 2018 5:54 pm

We've written up a simple API to check the Plugin Store for the latest version of a plugin. Use this topic to discuss.

Colorado4Wheeler · Post by **Colorado4Wheeler** » Tue Feb 20, 2018 6:18 pm

Aren't you building this into the next release? Is this just an interim solution until that happens or do you want us to start adding this to our plugins if we want to check for updates?

howartp · Post by **howartp** » Wed Feb 21, 2018 3:29 am

With the release of the Plugin Store, we soft-launched an API that would allow an external source to get the details of the latest release for the specified plugin. We really hadn't intended to publish it because it is our intention to deliver a more fully developed API later (with API keys, etc), but we've had a lot of developers ask for the ability to get the current release from the store, so we decided to go ahead and publish this one.

We want to provide an example of how you might call this from within a plugin. Eventually we will have version checking and update notifications available as a built-in feature of plugins. In the meantime, however, you can follow this pattern.

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Post by **jay (support)** » Wed Feb 21, 2018 9:30 am

@howartp's right - it'll be built-in. Probably not in the next feature release, but maybe the one after. This is specifically for those that want to do it now, and particularly for those that are running into the TLS version issue when trying to talk to GitHub. We don't require TLS 1.2 so this will work on macOS 10.7-10.12 (which ship with older versions).

It's definitely not meant as a recommendation or guideline that everyone should follow (it's basically throwaway work).

Colorado4Wheeler · Post by **Colorado4Wheeler** » Wed Feb 21, 2018 11:50 am

howartp wrote:With the release of the Plugin Store, we...

I did read all of that, I wasn't being a noob

jay (support) wrote:Probably not in the next feature release, but maybe the one after.

That's what I was wondering, if it was the next release I wouldn't worry much about it, but if it's the one after then I may.

howartp · Post by **howartp** » Wed Feb 21, 2018 1:03 pm

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kw123 · Post by **kw123** » Thu Feb 22, 2018 11:03 am

from a load point of view this has the same impact has a simple curl statement?

Karl

Colorado4Wheeler · Post by **Colorado4Wheeler** » Thu Feb 22, 2018 11:16 am

Judging from the code, yes.

Post by **jay (support)** » Thu Feb 22, 2018 11:46 am

kw123 wrote:from a load point of view this has the same impact has a simple curl statement?

The load on what?

kw123 · Post by **kw123** » Thu Feb 22, 2018 12:43 pm

On the indigo host server.
... curl and screen scraping.

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Post by **jay (support)** » Thu Feb 22, 2018 8:04 pm

kw123 wrote:On the indigo host server.
... curl and screen scraping.

Using curl will spawn a separate process, so it's inherently more resource intensive. Probably not significant though given how infrequently it should happen.

vtmikel · Post by **vtmikel** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 7:59 am

Jay, will the eventual built in mechanism include the ability to update a plugin from a remote client of indigo? Avoiding having to Remote Desktop to the server would be a welcome improvement.

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Post by **jay (support)** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 11:26 am

vtmikel wrote:Jay, will the eventual built in mechanism include the ability to update a plugin from a remote client of indigo? Avoiding having to Remote Desktop to the server would be a welcome improvement.

Yes, though it will probably happen sometime after the checking mechanism is introduced. Just getting the checks working across all plugins and some form of notification will be the first step.

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