Update Checker

A framework for checking for updates for various software. Currently supported are:

• Eclipse IDE for Java Developers
• jGRASP
• Finch Robot 1 Python

Adding Checkers

Add your new update checker to the updatechecker/checkers/ folder. Each checker should specialize checker.BaseUpdateChecker and define the following two attributes at the class level:

• name: The full, friendly, name for the application
• short_name: A unique identifier for the application

Next, define a method, _load that can set the following attributes on self:

• _latest_url: The full URI where the latest version can be downloaded
• _latest_version: The string for the latest version
• _sha1_hash: The SHA1 hash of the latest version's download

Make sure to take self.beta in to account when determining the latest version.

Deploying

See the coming updatechecker-infra repository which provides an example of how to deploy this application on AWS Lambda using the Chalice framework and CDK. To provide an API of latest version information.