Disable Auto-update

dev-app-update.yml

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 owner: Azure
 repo: BatchExplorer
 provider: github
+updaterCacheDirName: BatchExplorer-cache

src/@batch-flask/core/user-configuration/user-configuration.service.ts

@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ export interface BatchFlaskUserConfiguration {
     };
 
     fileAssociations?: Array<{extension: string, type: string}>;
+
+    updateOnQuit?: boolean;
 }
 
 export interface UserConfigurationStore<T> {

src/client/cli.ts

@@ -2,15 +2,19 @@ import * as commander from "commander";
 import { app } from "electron";
 
 export interface BatchExplorerArgs {
+    disableAutoupdate?: boolean;
     updated?: boolean;
     userDataDir?: string;
     ignoreCertificateErrors?: boolean;
     args: string[];
 }
 
+// add user config options (in Settings) to also let the status of the autoupdate to persist - whether that be on or off
+// change naming to "set autoupdate on/off" or "autoupdate set to true/false" -> as Xing/Matt
 export function parseArguments(argv: string[]): BatchExplorerArgs {
     return commander
         .version(app.getVersion())
+        .option("--disable-autoupdate", "Disables autoupdate for instance and changes settings to turn off autoupdate")
         .option("--updated", "If the application was just updated")
         .option("--user-data-dir <path>", "Change the user data directory. Used for tests")
         .option("--ignore-certificate-errors", "Ignore https certificate errors")

src/client/startup.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { platformDynamicServer } from "@angular/platform-server";
-import { LocaleService, TranslationsLoaderService } from "@batch-flask/core";
+import { LocaleService, TranslationsLoaderService, UserConfigurationService } from "@batch-flask/core";
 import { log } from "@batch-flask/utils";
 import { ClientTranslationsLoaderService } from "client/core/i18n";
 import { MainApplicationMenu } from "client/menu";
@@ -75,6 +75,14 @@ export async function startBatchExplorer(args: BatchExplorerArgs) {
     await translationLoader.load();
     const batchExplorerApp = module.injector.get(BatchExplorerApplication);
     const menu = module.injector.get(MainApplicationMenu);
+
+    if (args.disableAutoupdate) {
+        log.warn("Application will not autoupdate");
+        autoUpdater.autoInstallOnAppQuit = false;
+        const userConfigService = module.injector.get(UserConfigurationService);
+        userConfigService.set("updateOnQuit", false);
+    }
+
     initializeServices(module.injector);
 
     setupSingleInstance(batchExplorerApp);