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Switch macOS update mechanism to static JSON mode (#461)

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Michael Telatynski
2022-12-05 12:41:13 +00:00
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parent 56370de568
commit 23fac479fe
2 changed files with 24 additions and 14 deletions
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src/updater.ts
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@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
*/
import { app, autoUpdater, ipcMain } from "electron";
import { autoUpdater, ipcMain } from "electron";
const UPDATE_POLL_INTERVAL_MS = 60 * 60 * 1000;
const INITIAL_UPDATE_DELAY_MS = 30 * 1000;
@@ -50,20 +50,14 @@ export function start(updateBaseUrl: string): void {
}
try {
let url: string;
// For reasons best known to Squirrel, the way it checks for updates
// is completely different between macOS and windows. On macOS, it
// hits a URL that either gives it a 200 with some json or
// 204 No Content. On windows it takes a base path and looks for
// files under that path.
let serverType: "json" | undefined;
if (process.platform === 'darwin') {
// include the current version in the URL we hit. Electron doesn't add
// it anywhere (apart from the User-Agent) so it's up to us. We could
// (and previously did) just use the User-Agent, but this doesn't
// rely on NSURLConnection setting the User-Agent to what we expect,
// and also acts as a convenient cache-buster to ensure that when the
// app updates it always gets a fresh value to avoid update-looping.
url = `${updateBaseUrl}macos/?localVersion=${encodeURIComponent(app.getVersion())}`;
// On macOS it takes a JSON file with a map between versions and their URLs
url = `${updateBaseUrl}macos/releases.json`;
serverType = "json";
} else if (process.platform === 'win32') {
// On windows it takes a base path and looks for files under that path.
url = `${updateBaseUrl}win32/${process.arch}/`;
} else {
// Squirrel / electron only supports auto-update on these two platforms.
@@ -75,7 +69,7 @@ export function start(updateBaseUrl: string): void {
if (url) {
console.log(`Update URL: ${url}`);
autoUpdater.setFeedURL({ url });
autoUpdater.setFeedURL({ url, serverType });
// We check for updates ourselves rather than using 'updater' because we need to
// do it in the main process (and we don't really need to check every 10 minutes:
// every hour should be just fine for a desktop app)