It would be nice if the bot auto-updated when there's a tag/commit (not sure which yet) is made on GitHub.
The actually tricky part here is getting it to refresh itself. Because if limitations, however, this would require two jars to be sensible to do. It's that way easier in i.e. Python, because it doesn't require compiling.
Fortunately, the bot uses Gradle, which also has a fatjar function. gradlew fatJar (./gradlew fatJar on *UNIX) is all that's needed. The version in Gradle currently stays constant, which means this is a possibility (UNIX though):
cp build/libs/haileybot-1.0.jar haileybot.jar
This is pretty much standard across all operating systems:
java -jar haileybot-1.0.jar
Java (or Kotlin) might not even be the best language to implement this in, because the launcher would be compiled separately from the main program (the weakness of compiled languages, unfortunately). Another option would be creating the jar with a different argument, but I'm not sure if this plays well while it's running. So this might need to be done in a different language (alternatively bash/batch/etc)
Jenna1337
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4 years ago
It would be nice if the bot auto-updated when there's a tag/commit (not sure which yet) is made on GitHub.
The actually tricky part here is getting it to refresh itself. Because if limitations, however, this would require two jars to be sensible to do. It's that way easier in i.e. Python, because it doesn't require compiling.
Fortunately, the bot uses Gradle, which also has a fatjar function.
gradlew fatJar(./gradlew fatJaron *UNIX) is all that's needed. The version in Gradle currently stays constant, which means this is a possibility (UNIX though):This is pretty much standard across all operating systems:
Java (or Kotlin) might not even be the best language to implement this in, because the launcher would be compiled separately from the main program (the weakness of compiled languages, unfortunately). Another option would be creating the jar with a different argument, but I'm not sure if this plays well while it's running. So this might need to be done in a different language (alternatively bash/batch/etc)