[FEATURE] Upgrade script from github if a newer version is available

[thecyberworld]

[FEATURE] Upgrade script from github if a newer version is available

[cowsecurity]

Sure! @sculley

[sculley]

@kabir0x23 @0xFTW - I am ready to submit a PR which I have tested inside my fork. There is only a tagged release in the releases but we need an actual release as my code relies on the Github API to obtain the latest release (this can't be done with tags)

https://github.com/thecyberworld/docser/releases

I have chosen to build the binary rather than downloading pre-existing binaries as that requires further work to the Github Actions.

Can you please add a v0.1.0 release today to the releases page? as soon as that is ready I can submit my PR.

[kabir0x23]

@kabir0x23 @0xFTW - I am ready to submit a PR which I have tested inside my fork. There is only a tagged release in the releases but we need an actual release as my code relies on the Github API to obtain the latest release (this can't be done with tags)

https://github.com/thecyberworld/docser/releases

I have chosen to build the binary rather than downloading pre-existing binaries as that requires further work to the Github Actions.

Can you please add a v0.1.0 release today to the releases page? as soon as that is ready I can submit my PR.

Yes sure, will add by today

Thank you..

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[sculley]

Hello @0xFTW I would like to work on this issue to add the ability to upgrade docser from the application itself. Could you assign this to me?

[cowsecurity]

Hi @sculley, is there any update?

[sculley]

@0xFTW - I will send a PR over the weekend.

I currently am working on a solution that relies on the releases in GitHub, it checks if the there is a release which is newer than the binary being ran and if so downloads/extracts and then updates the local binary.

What are you thoughts is that the approach you envisioned?

[sculley]

So noticed we don't include the binary in the releases, which doesn't work well with my solution.

I was thinking that ideally this docser --upgrade feature could be used from a built binary but can look into downloading latest code and building on the fly too.

[kabir0x23]

So noticed we don't include the binary in the releases, which doesn't work well with my solution.

I was thinking that ideally this docser --upgrade feature could be used from a built binary but can look into downloading latest code and building on the fly too.

we can add binaries, i will add by today

do have any another option, or this one is the most optimal solution?

[sculley]

@kabir0x23 - I for see two different solutions

Solution 1 - Download/Replace pre-existing Go Binary
Solution 2 - Download/Build/Replace pre-existing Go Binary

I am currently looking into both and will write code for both and test, I feel like Solution 1 would be cleaner but this would require we update the Github Action release workflow to build binaries for all intended platforms/architectures i.e. Windows/Linux/Darwin & AMD64/ARM64 (potentially many more)

Solution 2 wouldn't require any modifications to the Github Actions release workflow but will require more code (I suspect)

What are your thoughts?

[sculley]

@kabir0x23 @0xFTW - I have submitted #7 I have written in way so that if it can't find a release in the GitHub release page (which there currently isn't) it will return a message

Unable to find the latest release, exiting.

Which should allow this PR to be reviewed/approved/merged and then once you have time to add the releases it will work.

The change makes use of constants to track the current version and should be updated for all future releases.

const (
	owner          = "thecyberworld"
	repo           = "docser"
	currentVersion = "v0.1.0"
)

[kabir0x23]

@kabir0x23 @0xFTW - I have submitted #7 I have written in way so that if it can't find a release in the GitHub release page (which there currently isn't) it will return a message

Unable to find the latest release, exiting.

Which should allow this PR to be reviewed/approved/merged and then once you have time to add the releases it will work.

The change makes use of constants to track the current version and should be updated for all future releases.

const (
	owner          = "thecyberworld"
	repo           = "docser"
	currentVersion = "v0.1.0"
)

Hey @sculley
thanks for your contributions, we will review it by today