MBH Updater

A Python script designed for frontend updating of files. Not intended for use as a GIT alternative for backend programming.

Overview

This is a fairly simple program that will copy files from online and keep the file structure. For example, if you have /path/to/file/code.txt and /path/to/code.txt, it will keep those files in those folders locally.

Documentation

Updater class

What each class variable means.

class Updater(object):

def __init__(local_version_file="version.txt",
            latest_version_file="new_version.txt",
            latesturl=False, new_files=[],
            new_filesurl=True, output=True,
            source_file="", source_file_enabled=True,
            source_fileurl=True, files_offset=0)
    """
    local_version_file: The downloaded version of the software.
    Should contain a number, like 1, 1.2, 1.234.
    latest_version_file: Likely stored online. This is the latest version of the software.
    Should contain a number, like 2, 2.3, 2.345.
    latesturl: Boolean. Whether or not the file stored at latest_version_file is a url.
    new_files: Array. Contains the location of the files to update if the versions don't match.
    new_filesurl: Boolean. Whether or not the items listed in new_files are urls.
    output: Boolean. Whether or not to write to screen. Ignored for TQDMUpdater.
    source_file: (optional) The location of the source file (where all files required to pull
    are stored).
    source_file_enabled: Boolean. Whether or not to use the source file feature.
    source_fileurl: Whether or not the source file is stored online.
    files_offset: Integer. Contains the folder offset to add to URLs when pulling from online. (eg. If the url is http://files.net/files/source/file.txt, and files_offset is 1, it will be pulled into /source/file.txt. If the offset is 2, it will not be stored in an extra folder.)
    """

Initialize the updater

Standard

import mbhupdater.updater

updater = mbhupdater.updater.Updater()

tqdm (Progress Bar)

import mbhupdater.tqdm_updater

updater = mbhupdater.tqdm_updater.TQDMUpdater()

Pull the new files

Pull without comparing versions:
updater.pull_files()
Pull if local version is outdated:
updater.compare_and_pull()

When you are pulling files from online, you MUST include the http:// or https:// part of the URL in the sources list, otherwise there may be errors in both pulling the file from online, and writing the files locally.

Example source file

There is an optional source file feature in the updater. If you're using it, this is how you would format it:

http://www.location1.com/file/file.txt
http://files.server.net/files/code.py
[DELETE]
/local/path/to/file.txt
/local/path/to/file2.txt
/old/thing/file.txt
/old/folder/
/temp/

Make sure to include the http:// or https:// for online files, otherwise it will not output to the correct folder and may crash.
Any files under the [DELETE] tag will be deleted instead of updated/created. The path for deletion must be a local file, not a URL.
If you want to delete a folder, you must have a / at the end.

Getters and setters

Pretty easy to guess what they do, they just use the variable names in the functions. Here's a list:

# Getters
get_local_version_file()
get_latest_version_file()
get_latesturl_status()
get_files_offset()
get_new_filesurl_status()
get_output_status()
get_local_version()
get_latest_version()
get_source_file_enabled()
get_source_fileurl_status()
# Setters
set_local_version_file(local_version_file)
set_latest_version_file(latest_version_file)
set_source_file(source_file)
set_files_offset()
toggle_latesturl()
toggle_new_filesurl()
toggle_output()
toggle_source_file_enabled()
toggle_source_fileurl()

All functions have descriptions that will show up in IDEs.

Other functions

# Other functions
compare_versions() - Returns True if the versions match and False if the local one is out of date.
read_files()       - Reads the content of the version files. Must use before get_local_version() or get_latest_version()