Add information to the extensions overview that a new version of an extension is available

[sirzento]

Scope

Extension development

Explanation

To do that, extension would need a configuration inside the conf.yml that points to a url that contains version informations.

For now, that could be a link to the extension from builtbybit.com, sourcexchange.net or just to the github release section.
With that link, the current available version can be parsed and compared against the current installed version.

If the version does not match, then a small icon could be displayed in the extension overview at the extension, which informs the admin that a new version is available for this extension.

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Edit: website parameter inside the conf.yml should already have that information I guess.

With a get request to that website and a simple query you can already get the current version pretty fast:

builtbybit.com:

document.getElementsByClassName("resourceVersion")[0].innerHTML;

sourcexchange.nat:

document.getElementById("information-heading").nextElementSibling.innerHTML.match(/v([^\s]+)/)[1];

github.com:

Add /releases/latest to the url and change the first part from https://github.com/ to https://api.github.com/repos/.
Example:
https://github.com/BlueprintFramework/framework/ will be https://api.github.com/repos/BlueprintFramework/framework/releases/latest.
This API call will have the latest version inside the tag_name property.

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Another Edit:
I am not a php guy but something like that should work. Maybe this could be binded to a button "Check for extension updates" in the overview to not throw a bunch of requests every time you access the extension overview.

function getVersionFromUrl($extension_url) {
    $context = stream_context_create(["http" => ["header" => "User-Agent: x"]]);
    $data = @file_get_contents($extension_url, false, $context);

    if (strpos($extension_url, "github.com") !== false) {
        $api_url = "https://api.github.com/repos" . parse_url($extension_url, PHP_URL_PATH);
        $api_url = rtrim($api_url, "/") . "/releases/latest";
        $data = @file_get_contents($api_url, false, $context);
        
        if ($data) {
            $version = json_decode($data)->tag_name;
            return $version ? $version : null;
        }
    } elseif (strpos($extension_url, "sourcexchange.net") !== false) {
        if ($data && preg_match('/Release v([^\s]+)/', $data, $matches)) {
            return trim($matches[1]);
        }
    } elseif (strpos($extension_url, "builtbybit.com") !== false) {
        if ($data && preg_match('/<span class="resourceVersion">v([^<]+)<\/span>/', $data, $matches)) {
            return trim($matches[1]);
        }
    }

    return null;
}

This will return the latest version if a valid url is given. Will return null if the website isn't valid or can't be reached.

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues before opening this issue.

[0x7d8]

this can technically also be achieved with the blueprint api which already has access to all required urls

[sirzento]

Yeah it does work when changing the file https://github.com/BlueprintFramework/framework/blob/main/resources/views/blueprint/admin/entry.blade.php to:

@if(isset($EXTENSION_ID))
  <div class="col-lg-3 col-md-4 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 text-center" style="padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 17px;">
    <a href="{{ route('admin.extensions.'.$EXTENSION_ID.'.index') }}">
      <button class="btn extension-btn" style="width:100%;margin-bottom:17px;">
        <div class="extension-btn-overlay"></div>
        <img src="{{ $EXTENSION_ICON }}" alt="{{ $EXTENSION_ID }}" class="extension-btn-image2"/>
        <img src="{{ $EXTENSION_ICON }}" alt="" class="extension-btn-image"/>
        <p class="extension-btn-text">{{ $EXTENSION_NAME }}</p>
        @if($EXTENSION_VERSION != $EXTENSION_LATEST_VERSION)
            <p class="extension-btn-version" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="top" data-original-title="Update available">{{ $EXTENSION_VERSION }} <i class="bi bi-info-circle-fill text-danger"></i></p>
        @else
            <p class="extension-btn-version">{{ $EXTENSION_VERSION }}</p>
        @endif
        <i class="bi bi-arrow-right-short" style="font-size: 34px;position: absolute;top: 15px;right: 30px;"></i>
      </button>
    </a>
  </div>
@endif

and in the file https://github.com/BlueprintFramework/framework/blob/main/resources/views/admin/extensions.blade.php at line 8/9 adding the function I wrote and changing the part starting at line 110 to:

      @foreach($blueprint->extensions() as $extension)
        @include("blueprint.admin.entry", [
          'EXTENSION_ID' => $extension['identifier'],
          'EXTENSION_NAME' => $extension['name'],
          'EXTENSION_VERSION' => $extension['version'],
          'EXTENSION_ICON' => !empty($extension['icon']) 
            ? '/assets/extensions/'.$extension['identifier'].'/icon.'.pathinfo($extension['icon'], PATHINFO_EXTENSION)
            : '/assets/extensions/'.$extension['identifier'].'/icon.jpg',
          'EXTENSION_LATEST_VERSION' => getVersionFromUrl($extension['website'])
        ])
      @endforeach

will check if a new version is available.

[0x7d8]

It will probably be implemented natively in the API so it requires way less calls

[0x7d8]

If emma allows me to

[prplwtf]

This feature idea is getting a green light from me and will be on the backlog for next release.

Updates should be fetched by the Blueprint API and properly handled. Version info should be periodically fetched by Blueprint, ideally in one request. Version checking should be able to be turned on or off through a flag.

Version info will be fetched daily, through a timestamp generated through the telemetry UUID.

[sirzento]

Very nice to hear.

yeah doing it somehwere inside the php files was just some trying out on my part on how this could look like 😄