Pass more information on the download URL for early compatibility check #190

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Dalai Felinto · 2024-06-18T12:54:19+02:00

Dalai Felinto commented

2024-06-18 12:54:19 +02:00

In order to help blender to figure out as early as possible if an extension is compatible with it, we want to pass more arguments to the URL.

repository
platforms: optional, comma-separated values
blender_version_min
blender_version_max: optional

With the exception of the repository, all the other values are from the manifest. Keep in mind that the platforms needs to take into account [build.generated] platforms=....

Example:
https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/bioxelnodes/0.2.2/download/add-on-bioxelnodes-v0.2.2.zip?repository=/api/v1/extensions/&blender_version_min=4.2.0&platforms=windows-x64,macos-arm64

In order to help blender to figure out as early as possible if an extension is compatible with it, we want to pass more arguments to the URL. * repository * platforms: optional, comma-separated values * blender_version_min * blender_version_max: optional With the exception of the repository, all the other values are from the manifest. Keep in mind that the platforms needs to take into account [`[build.generated] platforms=...`](https://projects.blender.org/infrastructure/extensions-website/issues/74#issuecomment-1216985). Example: `https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/bioxelnodes/0.2.2/download/add-on-bioxelnodes-v0.2.2.zip?repository=/api/v1/extensions/&blender_version_min=4.2.0&platforms=windows-x64,macos-arm64`

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Dalai Felinto referenced this issue from blender/blender

2024-06-18 12:56:17 +02:00

Extensions Platform: beta launch #119521

Campbell Barton commented

2024-06-18 13:00:54 +02:00

@Oleg-Komarov mentioned this isn't correct use of these URL arguments... and I'm not a web developer so I can't really judge these things.
However it has some advantages:

This works with a statically generated site - no need for a server that responds to specific requests.
The compatibility can be known instantly when dropping without having to make a request to the server.

In short it makes the implementation simple on Blender's side and doesn't require additional delay from client/server communication.

@Oleg-Komarov mentioned this isn't correct use of these URL arguments... and I'm not a web developer so I can't really judge these things. However it has some advantages: - This works with a statically generated site - no need for a server that responds to specific requests. - The compatibility can be known instantly when dropping without having to make a request to the server. In short it makes the implementation simple on Blender's side and doesn't require additional delay from client/server communication.

Oleg-Komarov referenced this issue from a commit

2024-06-21 13:41:39 +02:00

Download url: add compatibility info (#190)

Oleg-Komarov commented

2024-06-21 13:43:37 +02:00

Deployed in production

Oleg-Komarov closed this issue

2024-06-21 13:43:38 +02:00

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