API Endpoint for Chatterino7 Updates

[Nerixyz]

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Currently, Chatterino7 uses https://7tv.io/v2/chatterino/version/{os}/{branch} for updates (⚠ This 404s currently(?)) where os is one of win|macos|linux and branch is one of beta|stable. This follows the official update server (sitting at https://notitia.chatterino.com/version/chatterino/{os}/{branch}).

It would be nice if the next Chatterino version could at least have a URL schema to check for (even if the API isn't actually implemented). Since there's no API schema or anything, I'll propose https://7tv.io/v4/chatterino/version/{os}/{branch}.

The response structure is the following (for each os - branches are identical):

type CommonResponse = {
    /// A version string ({major}.{minor}.{patch}).
    /// Even for beta versions, this doesn't include any suffix.
    version: string;
};
type WindowsResponse = CommonResponse & {
    /// A (potentially redirected) URL to a download of the portable version 
    /// (a zip file - Chatterino7.Portable.zip)
    portable_download: string;
    /// A (potentially redirected) URL to a download of the installer (Chatterino7.Installer.exe)
    updateexe: string;
	
    // 🆕 I propose the following (even though we don't have ARM builds yet)
    /// Chatterino7.Installer.ARM.exe
    update_arm: string;
    /// Chatterino7.Installer.exe
    update_x86: string;

    /// A version string ({major}.{minor}.{patch}).
    /// Even for beta versions, this doesn't include any suffix.
    version: string;
};
type MacOsResponse = CommonResponse & {
    /// A (potentially redirected) URL to a download of the "installer" 
    /// (Chatterino-x86_64.dmg - for backwards compat, see below)
    /// In contrast to the windows URLs, this will open in the browser.
    updateexe: string;
    // 🆕 I propose the following, since we now have ARM and x86 builds:
    /// Chatterino-arm64.dmg
    update_arm: string;
    /// Chatterino-x86_64.dmg
    update_x86: string;
};
type LinuxResponse = CommonResponse & {
     /// A link to a website containing update instructions (just the GH release page for now)
    updateguide: string;
};

As for macOS, I'll add a popup (in the changelog one) notifying users using the x86 build on ARM to use the actual ARM version. Technically, since the URL opens in the browser, we could also serve some JS that detects if the user is running on Apple Silicon.

You can find the current implementation of the Updater at https://github.com/SevenTV/chatterino7/blob/chatterino7/src/singletons/Updates.cpp.

Is your feature related to a bug

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Participation

• I am willing to submit a pull request to implement this

[lennartkloock]

We are currently still in the process of implementing the old v3 API but we will consider this when we model the new v4 API.