Updater

SimplixCore offers a way for automatic update checks and automatic update installation. This works for every SimplixAppliaction so like SimplixLibraries and Plugins. This will not work for standalone applications.

The update policy

If you want to benefit from SimplixCore's version checking, you need to place a updatepolicy.json file into your resources folder. The file looks like that:

{  
  "versionPattern": "regex-here",
  "versionFetcherClass": "dev.simplix.core.common.updater.SpigotMcResourceVersionFetcher",  
  "versionFetcher": {  
    "resourceId": "63778"  
  },  
  "downloaderClass": "dev.simplix.core.common.updater.UrlUpdateDownloader",  
  "downloader": {
    "url": "https://my-file-host.com/myplugin/latest.jar"  
  }  
}

versionPattern: Optional, only needed when using a non standard versioning scheme.

versionFetcherClass: Required, the class that will be used for querying the latest version number.

versionFetcher: Required, a serialized instance of the VersionFetcher class.

updateDownloaderClass: Optional, only needed if you want to automatically download the update file. The class that is beeing used for downloading the update.

updateDownloader: Optional, only needed if you want to automatically download the update file. A serialized instance of the UpdateDownloader class.

Available version fetchers

Class	Purpose
dev.simplix.core.common.updater.SpigotMcResourceVersionFetcher	This will fetch the latest version number from a provided SpigotMC.org resource identified with its resourceId
dev.simplix.core.common.updater.UrlVersionFetcher	This will fetch the latest version number from a provided url. The response has to be plain text.

Available update downloaders

Class	Purpose
dev.simplix.core.common.updater.UrlUpdateDownloader	This downloads a binary file from a provided url