MoonDeploy - JS

JavaScript utilities for MoonDeploy

Introduction

MoonDeploy - JS is a small JavaScript library simplifying the retrieval of MoonDeploy descriptors for GitHub projects. It is written in pure JavaScript with AJAX, so it requires no additional dependencies.

Usage

Copy moondeploy3.js into your web project and reference it as a standard JavaScript file:

<script type="text/javascript" src="PATH TO moondeploy3.js"></script>

Function provided

getLatestMoonDescriptor()

getLatestMoonDescriptor() asks GitHub API for the latest URL of the given descriptor.

Parameters:

• The Base URL, which must match the following pattern:

  https://github.com/GITHUB_USER/GITHUB_REPO/releases/latest

  otherwise, the function will throw an error message

• The Descriptor file name (most often, App.moondeploy) - that is, the filename of the descriptor uploaded to GitHub's Releases area. It must have .moondeploy extension

• The success callback, called when the most recent URL for the descriptor is correctly retrieved. It must be function(descriptorURL)

• The failure callback, called when there is a network problem. It is optional, but, if present, must be function(apiRequest), where apiRequest is the XMLHttpRequest which failed

Please, note: if GitHub API returned a result, but the descriptor file name was not found among the available artifacts for the latest release, the function will throw an error message.

getLatestReleaseArtifact()

getLatestReleaseArtifact() asks GitHub API for the latest release of a given file, provided that its prefix and its suffix are known. For example, file Chronos-IDE-2.1.zip has a Chronos-IDE prefix and a .zip suffix.

Parameters:

• The Base URL, which must match the following pattern:

  https://github.com/GITHUB_USER/GITHUB_REPO/releases/latest

  otherwise, the function will throw an error message

• The file name prefix, which is the beginning of the file name

• The file name suffix, which is the ending of the file name - usually, its extension

• The success callback, called when the most recent URL for the file is correctly retrieved. It must be function(fileURL)

• The failure callback, called when there is a network problem. It is optional, but, if present, must be function(apiRequest), where apiRequest is the XMLHttpRequest which failed

Please, note: if GitHub API returned a result, but the a matching artifact name was not found among the available artifacts for the latest release, the function will throw an error message.

scanAssetsInGitHubLatestRelease()

scanAssetsInGitHubLatestRelease() is a relatively low-level function that potentially applies a callback to all the assets (that is, published artifacts) for the latest release of the given GitHub project.

Parameters:

• The Base URL, which must match the following pattern:

  https://github.com/GITHUB_USER/GITHUB_REPO/releases/latest

  otherwise, the function will throw an error message

• The asset function, which is a function whose parameters are:

  • responseObject: the JSON object returned as a response by GitHub API about the latest release

  • asset: the JSON object, within the response, related to the asset currently examined

  If the function returns a true value, no more artifacts will be scanned and the subsequent callback won't be called

• The all assets scanned function, which is a callback taking one parameter:

  • responseObject: the JSON object returned as a response by GitHub API about the latest release

  This function is only called when the asset function above never returned true and all the published artifacts have been scanned

• The error callback function, called if a network error occurred while performing the AJAX call

Example

Please, refer to the example HTML page and the related script.

Further references

• MoonDeploy

• MoonDeploy-Gradle

• MoonDeploy-Ant