Some servers will return an error response if a `Content-Length`
header isn't included in a `POST` request, so this adds it to the
`post_args` array when `post_form` or `post_json` are used.
This adds a `Livecheck::Options` class, which is intended to house
various configuration options that are set in `livecheck` blocks,
conditionally set by livecheck at runtime, etc. The general idea is
that when we add features involving configurations options (e.g., for
livecheck, strategies, curl, etc.), we can make changes to `Options`
without needing to modify parameters for strategy `find_versions`
methods, `Strategy` methods like `page_headers` and `page_content`,
etc. This is something that I've been trying to improve over the years
and `Options` should help to reduce maintenance overhead in this area
while also strengthening type signatures.
`Options` replaces the existing `homebrew_curl` option (which related
strategies pass to `Strategy` methods and on to `curl_args`) and the
new `url_options` (which contains `post_form` or `post_json` values
that are used to make `POST` requests). I recently added `url_options`
as a temporary way of enabling `POST` support without `Options` but
this restores the original `Options`-based implementation.
Along the way, I added a `homebrew_curl` parameter to the `url` DSL
method, allowing us to set an explicit value in `livecheck` blocks.
This is something that we've needed in some cases but I also intend
to replace implicit/inferred `homebrew_curl` usage with explicit
values in `livecheck` blocks once this is available for use. My
intention is to eventually remove the implicit behavior and only rely
on explicit values. That will align with how `homebrew_curl` options
work for other URLs and makes the behavior clear just from looking at
the `livecheck` block.
Lastly, this removes the `unused` rest parameter from `find_versions`
methods. I originally added `unused` as a way of handling parameters
that some `find_versions` methods have but others don't (e.g., `cask`
in `ExtractPlist`), as this allowed us to pass various arguments to
`find_versions` methods without worrying about whether a particular
parameter is available. This isn't an ideal solution and I originally
wanted to handle this situation by only passing expected arguments to
`find_versions` methods but there was a technical issue standing in
the way. I recently found an answer to the issue, so this also
replaces the existing `ExtractPlist` special case with generic logic
that checks the parameters for a strategy's `find_versions` method
and only passes expected arguments.
Replacing the aforementioned `find_versions` parameters with `Options`
ensures that the remaining parameters are fairly consistent across
strategies and any differences are handled by the aforementioned
logic. Outside of `ExtractPlist`, the only other difference is that
some `find_versions` methods have a `provided_content` parameter but
that's currently only used by tests (though it's intended for caching
support in the future). I will be renaming that parameter to `content`
in an upcoming PR and expanding it to the other strategies, which
should make them all consistent outside of `ExtractPlist`.
I initially set the type for livecheck's `post_form` and `post_json`
hashes to allow either a string or symbol key. I used string keys in
the documentation, as there will inevitably be some form field names
that would pose a problem for symbols (e.g., `E-mail` uses a hyphen,
`1twothree` starts with a digit, etc.). However, I remembered that we
can simply use quote symbols like `:"E-mail"` to handle these
situations, as they have the flexibility of a string while still being
a symbol.
With that in mind, this updates related type signatures to only allow
symbol keys and updates documentation and tests accordingly. The
documentation example contains a hyphenated form field, so it
demonstrates how to handle names that don't work as a bare symbol.
Between this commit and the previous one, this brings test coverage
for `Livecheck::Strategy` up to 98.18% line coverage and 97.22%
branch coverage. The only uncovered areas are some Sorbet `params`
calls (which I'm not sure how to cover) and a conditional `break` in
`page_headers` that will be refactored away in the future.
The increased coverage is primarily in areas that weren't covered
before because they call methods that make network requests. I worked
around this with stubs and doubles, so we can test this code to some
degree. I plan to expand this approach to other areas in livecheck
that aren't covered for the same reason and that should significantly
increase test coverage (along with some other test improvements that
I have lined up).
livecheck currently doesn't support `POST` requests but it wasn't
entirely clear how best to handle that. I initially approached it as
a `Post` strategy but unfortunately that would have required us to
handle response body parsing (e.g., JSON, XML, etc.) in some fashion.
We could borrow some of the logic from related strategies but we would
still be stuck having to update `Post` whenever we add a strategy for
a new format.
Instead, this implements `POST` support by borrowing ideas from the
`using: :post` and `data` `url` options found in formulae. This uses
a `post_form` option to handle form data and `post_json` to handle
JSON data, encoding the hash argument for each into the appropriate
format. The presence of either option means that curl will use a
`POST` request.
With this approach, we can make a `POST` request using any strategy
that calls `Strategy::page_headers` or `::page_content` (directly or
indirectly) and everything else works the same as usual. The only
change needed in related strategies was to pass the options through
to the `Strategy` methods.
For example, if we need to parse a JSON response from a `POST`
request, we add a `post_data` or `post_json` hash to the `livecheck`
block `url` and use `strategy :json` with a `strategy` block. This
leans on existing patterns that we're already familiar with and
shouldn't require any notable maintenance burden when adding new
strategies, so it seems like a better approach than a `Post` strategy.
Valid `strategy` block return types currently vary between
strategies. Some only accept a string whereas others accept a string
or array of strings. [`strategy` blocks also accept a `nil` return
(to simplify early returns) but this was already standardized across
strategies.]
While some strategies only identify one version by default (where a
string is an appropriate return type), it could be that a strategy
block identifies more than one version. In this situation, the
strategy would need to be modified to accept (and work with) an
array from a `strategy` block.
Rather than waiting for this to become a problem, this modifies all
strategies to standardize on allowing `strategy` blocks to return a
string or array of strings (even if only one of these is currently
used in practice). Standardizing valid return types helps to further
simplify the mental model for `strategy` blocks and reduce cognitive
load.
This commit extracts related logic from `#find_versions` into
methods like `#versions_from_content`, which is conceptually similar
to `PageMatch#page_matches` (renamed to `#versions_from_content`
for consistency). This allows us to write tests for the related code
without having to make network requests (or stub them) at this point.
In general, this also helps to better align the structure of
strategies and how the various `#find_versions` methods work with
versions.
There's still more planned work to be done here but this is a step
in the right direction.
