mobile-update-check

The Mobile-Update-Check offers a simple way to check an app's version and potentially request an update from the user if necessary.

Currently only the Semantiv Versioning convention is supported for product and os-version numbers:

MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH

Adding Update Rules

In order to add a rule for an application, one needs to add the rules to the rules.json.

The rules.json file contains a list of rules-sets. Each rule-set contains a list of rules for a key. A key is the os/product combination e.g. ios/fitapp which also is the path used then for the GET request.

An example for the rules.json could look as follows:

[
  {
    "key": "ios/someapp",
    "rules": [
      {
        "osVersion": "=<5.0.1",
        "productVersion": "=<2.0.10",
        "action": "ADVICE"
      },
      {
        "osVersion": "=<5.0.1",
        "productVersion": "=<3.0.10",
        "action": "NONE"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "key": "android/someapp",
    "rules": [
      {
        "osVersion": "=<5.0.1",
        "productVersion": "=<2.0.10",
        "action": "ADVICE"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "key": "newos/newapp",
    "rules": [
      {
        "osVersion": "=<5.0.1",
        "productVersion": "=<2.0.10",
        "action": "FORCE"
      }
    ]
  }
]

Version Numbers within the Update Rules

The version number parsing / validating is done with the following library: Masterminds SemVer project on Github

Basic Comparisons (taken from the project on GitHub):

There are two elements to the comparisons. First, a comparison string is a list of comma separated and comparisons.
These are then separated by || separated or comparisons. For example, ">= 1.2, < 3.0.0 || >= 4.2.3" is looking for
a comparison that's greater than or equal to 1.2 and less than 3.0.0 or is greater than or equal to 4.2.3.

=: equal (aliased to no operator)
!=: not equal
>: greater than
<: less than
>=: greater than or equal to
<=: less than or equal to

For further information and more complex cases, please check the documentation on Github: Masterminds SemVer Github

Testing

Please write tests for new functionality as well as tests if edge cases occur that haven't been tested yet. Add these tests to:

mobileupdatecheck_test.go

The following will run the application as is:

go run mobileupdatecheck.go

And you can test the locally running version e.g. with the following query in your browser:

localhost:8008/android/fitapp?osVersion=1.0.0&productVersion=1.2.3

Deployment

The mobile-update-check application is deployed via our current egym internal deployment tools that should be accessible by egym devs. If not please request access from the core team.