bump version to 0.3.3-alpha.1

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "simsapa"
-version = "0.3.2-alpha.1"
+version = "0.3.3-alpha.1"
 description = "Simsapa Dhamma Reader - Buddhist suttas and Pali dictionary"
 # pypi identification
 authors = ["Gambhiro <profound.labs@gmail.com>"]
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ license = "GPLv3"
 # - simsapa.db_version (below)
 # - tool.briefcase.version (below)
 # - simsapa/__init__.py SIMSAPA_APP_VERSION
+# - simsapa/assets/releases_fallback.json
 
 [simsapa]
 db_version = "0.3.0-alpha.1"
@@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ to = {format = "setuppy", path = "setup.py"}
 project_name = "Simsapa Dhamma Reader"
 bundle = "io.github"
 # briefcase requires PEP440 version strings
-version = "0.3.2a1"
+version = "0.3.3a1"
 url = "https://github.com/simsapa/simsapa"
 license = "MIT license"
 # Package will display this info

simsapa/__init__.py

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 # When running the prod app, the value below is used.
 #
 # In the PyInstaller build for Windows, importlib.metadata.version('simsapa') errors out with missing module.
-SIMSAPA_APP_VERSION = "0.3.2-alpha.1"
+SIMSAPA_APP_VERSION = "0.3.3-alpha.1"
 
 SIMSAPA_PACKAGE_DIR = importlib.resources.files('simsapa')
 
@@ -83,6 +83,13 @@
 else:
     IS_SWAY = False
 
+b =  pkgutil.get_data(__name__, str(PACKAGE_ASSETS_RSC_DIR.joinpath("releases_fallback.json")))
+if b is None:
+    RELEASES_FALLBACK_JSON = ""
+else:
+    # Value to use in case the network request fails.
+    RELEASES_FALLBACK_JSON = b.decode("utf-8")
+
 READING_TEXT_COLOR = "#1a1a1a" # 90% black
 READING_BACKGROUND_COLOR = "#FAE6B2"
 DARK_READING_BACKGROUND_COLOR = "#F0B211"

simsapa/app/helpers.py

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 from simsapa.app.lookup import DHP_CHAPTERS_TO_RANGE, SNP_UID_TO_RANGE, THAG_UID_TO_RANGE, THIG_UID_TO_RANGE
 from simsapa.app.db import appdata_models as Am
 
-from simsapa import APP_DB_PATH, ASSETS_DIR, COURSES_DIR, EBOOK_UNZIP_DIR, GRAPHS_DIR, HTML_RESOURCES_APPDATA_DIR, HTML_RESOURCES_USERDATA_DIR, INDEX_DIR, SIMSAPA_APP_VERSION, SIMSAPA_DIR, SIMSAPA_PACKAGE_DIR, SIMSAPA_RELEASES_BASE_URL, USER_DB_PATH, logger
+from simsapa import APP_DB_PATH, ASSETS_DIR, COURSES_DIR, EBOOK_UNZIP_DIR, RELEASES_FALLBACK_JSON, GRAPHS_DIR, HTML_RESOURCES_APPDATA_DIR, HTML_RESOURCES_USERDATA_DIR, INDEX_DIR, SIMSAPA_APP_VERSION, SIMSAPA_DIR, SIMSAPA_PACKAGE_DIR, SIMSAPA_RELEASES_BASE_URL, USER_DB_PATH, logger
 
 
 class SuttaRange(TypedDict):
@@ -276,7 +276,12 @@ def get_releases_info() -> ReleasesInfo:
         if r.ok:
             data: ReleasesInfo = r.json()
         else:
-            raise Exception(f"Response: {r.status_code}")
+            # Don't raise an exception, use a sane default value instead.
+            # Network timeouts can cause the request to fail, and the user gets
+            # confused, especially when they encounter it in the first asset
+            # download window.
+            data: ReleasesInfo = json.loads(RELEASES_FALLBACK_JSON)
+
     except Exception as e:
         logger.error(e)
         raise e

simsapa/assets/releases_fallback.json

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{"application":{"releases":[{"date":"2023-04-25T13:30:00","version_tag":"v0.3.3-alpha.1","github_repo":"simsapa\/simsapa","title":"Fixes","description":"- Fixed: network connection timeout breaks asset download window\n- Fixed: (Mac) Ebook Reader window resizes itself on TOC click\n- Fixed: Right-click > Copy uid copies only the first tab\n"},{"date":"2023-04-18T21:17:00","version_tag":"v0.3.2-alpha.1","github_repo":"simsapa\/simsapa","title":"Fixes","description":"- Fixed: Dictionary Window doesn't render words\n- Fixed: closing Sutta Languages window quits the app\n"},{"date":"2023-04-18T08:43:00","version_tag":"v0.3.1-alpha.1","github_repo":"simsapa\/simsapa","title":"Improvements and fixes","description":"Improvements:\n\n- Links Graph: hover preview\n- Word Lookup: use Ctrl+L to focus search input\n\nFixes:\n\n- Ebook Reader: file encoding error\n- Sutta Study: smaller minimum width\n- Sutta Study: text should respond to View > Increase \/ Decrease Text Size\n- GPT Prompts: fix `Tokenizer error: Unknown encoding cl100k_base`\n- (Mac) Increase hover preview windows distance from links\n- Send to Kindle: fix MOBI path\n- Send to Kindle: Kindle Library rejects the exported sutta EPUB\n"},{"date":"2023-04-13T13:57:21","version_tag":"v0.3.0-alpha.1","github_repo":"simsapa\/simsapa","title":"New features and database update","description":"New features:\n\n- Sutta translation languages\n- Sutta Index window (offline copy of [index.readingfaithfully.org](https:\/\/index.readingfaithfully.org\/))\n- GPT Prompts window\n- Send to Kindle, Send to reMarkable\n- Export a sutta as EPUB or MOBI\n- Export a list of bookmarked suttas\n- Ebook Reader, with auto-linked sutta references to open in Simsapa\n- Double-click a word to lookup in the dictionary\n- Regex search option\n- Sutta Nip\u0101ta translations from Ven. \u00d1\u0101\u1e47ad\u012bpa ([The Silent Sages of Old (2020)](https:\/\/pathpress.org\/new-the-silent-sages-of-old-pdf\/))\n"},{"date":"2023-01-16T07:16:58","version_tag":"v0.2.0-alpha.1","github_repo":"simsapa\/simsapa","title":"New features and database update","description":"New features:\n\n- Link Preview window\n- Cross-reference links from dictionary words to suttas\n- Word example sutta links in DPD dictionary\n- Bookmarks with comments\n- Pali Courses, vocabulary and sentence translation exercises\n- Sutta reading: Line by Line view, Pali and translation\n- Search modes: Exact Match, Title- and Headword Match\n"}]},"assets":{"releases":[{"date":"2023-04-13T13:57:21","version_tag":"v0.3.0-alpha.1","github_repo":"simsapa\/simsapa-assets","suttas_lang":["af","ar","au","bn","ca","cs","de","es","ev","fa","fi","fr","haw","he","hi","hr","hu","id","it","jpn","kan","kln","ko","la","lt","lzh","mr","my","nl","no","pgd","pl","pra","pt","ro","ru","si","sk","sld","sl","sr","sv","ta","th","vi","vu","xct","zh"],"title":"Updates","description":"New database assets."},{"date":"2023-01-16T07:16:58","version_tag":"v0.2.0-alpha.1","github_repo":"simsapa\/simsapa-assets","suttas_lang":[],"title":"Updates","description":""}]},"dpd":{"releases_feed_url":"https:\/\/github.com\/digitalpalidictionary\/digitalpalidictionary\/releases.atom"}}