Support selfhosted gitlab and gitea/forgejo servers

[sertonix]

Gitlab and gitea/forgejo servers can be self hosted and the would have protocols that could be understand by obtainium. It would be nice to have an option to select what type of server the url is. Potentially it would be nice to add other servers as sources so that you can search on them.

[ImranR98]

Custom Sources will be tricky to add, but definitely a good idea and worth doing. Aside from GitLab/Gitea it would also improve the experience for third-party F-Droid repos.

[ImranR98]

Could you link to a custom GitLab host to test with?

[sertonix]

I found this one: VLC

[ImranR98]

Leaving some notes for later:

• App schema should have a new property called overrideSource that is null by default.
• getSource should be modified to optionally take this overrideSource string, and immediately return the override source if one is given and actually exists.
  • Existing uses of getSource should be changed to make use of this new param where appropriate.
• Wherever standardizeURL is used, don't use it if the App specifies an override source - just return the existing URL.
  • This is because we don't know what crazy URLs third party or self-hosted gitlab/gitea/fdroid/etc repos may have).
• On the Add App page, add a dropdown to let the user specify this new property (integrate with other inputs on the page). Place the dropdown right below the search bar (above the "Additional Options for ..." heading).
• Also on the Add App page, show a warning dialog when the user clicks "Add" if the new override source setting is not null. 2 warnings:
  • User is told that their target site may not work and they should only use "Auto" unless they know what they're doing (think about good phrasing).
  • User is told to enter an exact repo URL (since standardizeURL can no longer be relied on to reliably grab the 'standard' URL and discard the rest. Again, think of better wording (is it obvious what "exact URL" is supposed to mean?).

Above should be okay but will probably have some unforeseen issues.

[ImranR98]

I found this one: VLC

Doesn't look like any repos on this site have APKs attached to the releases. Could you provide the repo you made this issue for (assuming you had one)?

[ImranR98]

Closing this for now, the feature has been added in the latest version: https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/releases/tag/v0.12.0-beta

Have not tried it with third-party gitlab repos so we may need to reopen this issue if it turns out not to work. Works with third-party F-Droid repos (see #393).

[rajarshikhatua100]

couldn't download these ones - https://git.torrents-csv.com/heretic/torrents-csv-android , https://forge.chapril.org/hardcoresushi/DroidFS