import { autoUpdater, UpdateInfo } from "electron-updater"; import logger from "./logger"; import { isDevelopment, isTestEnv } from "../common/vars"; import { delay } from "../common/utils"; import { areArgsUpdateAvailableToBackchannel, AutoUpdateLogPrefix, broadcastMessage, onceCorrect, UpdateAvailableChannel, UpdateAvailableToBackchannel } from "../common/ipc"; import { once } from "lodash"; import { app, ipcMain } from "electron"; let installVersion: null | string = null; function handleAutoUpdateBackChannel(event: Electron.IpcMainEvent, ...[arg]: UpdateAvailableToBackchannel) { if (arg.doUpdate) { if (arg.now) { logger.info(`${AutoUpdateLogPrefix}: User chose to update now`); autoUpdater.quitAndInstall(true, true); app.exit(); // this is needed for the installer not to fail on windows. } else { logger.info(`${AutoUpdateLogPrefix}: User chose to update on quit`); autoUpdater.autoInstallOnAppQuit = true; } } else { logger.info(`${AutoUpdateLogPrefix}: User chose not to update`); } } /** * starts the automatic update checking * @param interval milliseconds between interval to check on, defaults to 24h */ export const startUpdateChecking = once(function (interval = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24): void { if (isDevelopment || isTestEnv) { return; } autoUpdater.logger = logger; autoUpdater.autoDownload = false; autoUpdater.autoInstallOnAppQuit = false; autoUpdater .on("update-available", (info: UpdateInfo) => { if (autoUpdater.autoInstallOnAppQuit) { // a previous auto-update loop was completed with YES+LATER, check if same version if (installVersion === info.version) { // same version, don't broadcast return; } } /** * This should be always set to false here because it is the reasonable * default. Namely, if a don't auto update to a version that the user * didn't ask for. */ autoUpdater.autoInstallOnAppQuit = false; installVersion = info.version; autoUpdater.downloadUpdate() .catch(error => logger.error(`${AutoUpdateLogPrefix}: failed to download update`, { error: String(error) })); }) .on("update-downloaded", (info: UpdateInfo) => { try { const backchannel = `auto-update:${info.version}`; ipcMain.removeAllListeners(backchannel); // only one handler should be present // make sure that the handler is in place before broadcasting (prevent race-condition) onceCorrect({ source: ipcMain, channel: backchannel, listener: handleAutoUpdateBackChannel, verifier: areArgsUpdateAvailableToBackchannel, }); logger.info(`${AutoUpdateLogPrefix}: broadcasting update available`, { backchannel, version: info.version }); broadcastMessage(UpdateAvailableChannel, backchannel, info); } catch (error) { logger.error(`${AutoUpdateLogPrefix}: broadcasting failed`, { error }); installVersion = undefined; } }); async function helper() { while (true) { await checkForUpdates(); await delay(interval); } } helper(); }); export async function checkForUpdates(): Promise { try { logger.info(`📡 Checking for app updates`); await autoUpdater.checkForUpdates(); } catch (error) { logger.error(`${AutoUpdateLogPrefix}: failed with an error`, { error: String(error) }); } }