Force Update Doesn't Work

[rdoll]

Describe the bug

About -> Force Update doesn't update anything; or at least it doesn't update the version displayed in About. A shift reload on desktop or reload on mobile seems to load the latest version.

Game Enviroment

n/a

To Reproduce

1. Click on About -> Force Update

Expected behavior

About -> Force Update should always load the most recent version.

Gloomhaven Secretariat Version

0.77.15, 0.78.something and 0.79.3

Used Browser

Chrome 118, FireFox 118, various Android tablet and mobile browsers (specifics unknown)

OS

Windows 10, Android (version unknown)

Additional

Two approaches to handle version mismatches: default to always matching the server or allow client to control.

If always matching server, going to ghs.de should always result in the most recent version loading, i.e. Force Update should be largely useless for online usage (tho still necessary for PWAs, right?).

If allow client to control, it would be nice if there was a dialog about being out of date with the usual "always update automatically", "never remind me again" and "update now" buttons.

[Lurkars]

I hope it's just because I forgot about the clearing of the cache is asynchronous and will change that. Otherwise, this may overcome my knowledge about PWAs, especially I know that every browser handles this a bit differently.

[Lurkars]

Changed to async/await in v0.79.5. Not sure if this solves the issue, haven't time to test this deep, so happy about more feedback here.

[rdoll]

Awesome. I've updated to v0.79.5 (which definitely had the Force Update didn't work -- I had to shift-reload the browser tab), so I'll verify that Force Update works after the next release.

Closing for now (because only way to add a comment) and will re-open if testing fails.
Thanks, Lurkars!

[Lurkars]

So very small change, but new Release now v0.79.6. So you should be able to check now, if anything changed here or if the issue still exists.

[rdoll]

Gah. When switching to my GHS tab in latest FireFox, it automatically loaded v0.79.6 :(. I also updated my latest Chrome to v0.79.6, so I'll try both again after the next update.

Thanks.

[rdoll]

Today both FireFox and Chrome automatically updated to v0.80.2. I also checked a manual Force Update and GHS was still working. I think this is sufficient to close this issue, but please re-open if there's more you want to do. And thanks for the fix!

[englut]

@Lurkars I updated my ghs-client to 0.94.2, I was on 0.90.7. After hitting force update in my PWA, the version shows 0.90.7.

I had to delete the PWA and re-add it, before seeing 0.94.2.

I'm running ghs in docker, both server and client. Not sure if that helps narrow things down.

[Lurkars]

@qauff more important would first be OS/Browser. Also I may check docker if some cache policies are in there, that doesn't apply to my hosted version.

[englut]

Tried on Firefox, Safari on macOS and Safari (PWA) on iOS!

Does the force update mechanism do something specific? Maybe I can do some tests to see exactly what is preventing it from happening.

[Lurkars]

Yes, force updating is calling this:

gloomhavensecretariat/src/app/ui/header/menu/menu.ts

Line 293 in 3610a6c

async clearAndRefresh() {

which should clear the cache. I just test on Linux with Chrome and on Android with every browser supporting PWAs. For a while I can reproduce this issue in Firefox on Android. But also couldn't really identify what the problem is. Most of the time, I need to hit "Force Update", reload the site manually and then what a while and the normal "Update Button" appears and then it's working. Hitting force update multiple times also helped sometimes. Sadly, I already did research on this but didn't helped for now.

[englut]

Weird. I just updated to 0.95.4 and everything seems to be updated automatically. On my iOS Safari (PWA) and my Firefox on macOS. Must have been some kind of weird cache with the previous setup I had.

Thanks @Lurkars!