[TYPO3-english] download fresh extension list per cli

[Marcel Remmy]

Hi Xavier,

thanks for the response. You've got the same point of view about that.
Now the thing is, that i haven't been able to invoke the EM scripts to
my extension in some time and there's much more work to do.

invoking the CMD[fetchMetaData]=extensions command per GET works, but
then of course a session has to be active - not intended!

there could be a cli user that logs on before... right?

could be faster grokked than figuring out how to match all these objects
in objects to get the EM just update the list. ;)

but i'm widely open for hints regarding that!

greetings,
Marcel



Xavier Perseguers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> my goal is to have the extension list updated every 12hrs regardless of
>> me being logged in.
>>
>> two questions appear:
>>
>> 1) are there security issues with that approach? (cli -> tools access !=
>> cli -> admin)
> 
> I don't think so as long as you don't update the extensions themselves
> automatically.
> 
>> 2) is there some way to implement it? (maybe tx_gabriel could come in
>> handy there)
> 
> I definitively would do something with gabriel, or better its
> integration in core with name scheduler.
> 
>> how should a trigger like that look like?
> 
> I don't know how to trigger the update itself but if you read code from
> EM and see what the click on the update button does, you should be able
> to call it from "outside", namely from your ext. Your ext would then be
> called every x hours depending on how you registered it in scheduler.
> 
> The scheduler itself requires 1 cron job entry and that's it for all
> extensions relying on it.
> 
> HTH
>