💡 Feature: [version badges on shield.io] 📛

[adriens]

💡 Feature request

The main idea would to be able to get a dedicated SDK%AN! shield that could se embedded on sdks homepages (maven, schemacrawler,...) ...so people know, just by visiting GH homepage that the software can be distributed on SDKMAN!

⚡ Benefits

1. Let community know that software is distributed on SDKMAN (like for npm, chocolatey,...)
2. Make software distribution always easier
3. Make promotion of sdkman
4. Make better core softwares homepages (on GH but not only)

👇 Requirements

• Make sdk list available as a public API

🚀 Actions

• [ ] Once the requirements are met, contact shields.io and ask them to add sdkman badge

[sualeh]

@adriens - great minds think alike - I had the same idea and emailed @marc0der 😄

[marc0der]

I love this! What would you expect the badge to display? I see there are many variants. BTW, everything on our API is already publicly available.

[adriens]

What would you expect the badge to display?

I guess, the first one would be the current version :

Then, as for Docker images or chocolatey packages : the number of downloads :

BTW, everything on our API is already publicly available.

Where can I refer to it please ?

[marc0der]

Sounds very simple to do, although I'm confused about this requirement you posted:

Make sdk list available as a public API

My guess would be that you are after surfacing the following instead:

• the current default version of your candidate on SDKMAN (we have this already)
• the number of downloads of the default version (we don't have this, and will be costly to implement)

[adriens]

Sounds very simple to do, although I'm confused about this requirement you posted:

I was not aware of where to find it 😸

My guess would be that you are after surfacing the following instead: the current default version of your candidate on SDKMAN (we have this already)

That would be perfect !

Do you want me to give a try to fill an issue on shields.io ?

[adriens]

🚀 I'm filling this issue right now

[adriens]

Badge request done cf https://github.com/badges/shields/issues/7581

[adriens]

🚀

[adriens]

@marc0der I got this feedback : https://github.com/badges/shields/issues/7581#issuecomment-1032928585

Then it appears it's not a real (json) API :

Could you drop a reply to chris48s on the last reply ?

[adriens]

⚠️ As mentionned on the issue :

[marc0der]

Hi @adriens, even though this API is publicly available, we don't have swagger on our endpoints at the moment. That said, we do have cucumber features describing our endpoints clearly.

Even though such a badge would be nice to have, we simply don't have the capacity to retrofit all our endpoints with swagger right now.

[adriens]

@marc0der , is there a place where we can get sdk details in json (instead of html)? I'd like to try something 🤞

[marc0der]

No sorry, nothing at the moment. In future, we will have JSON/HTTP APIs as we roll out our new Rust extensions. But for the moment it is all CSV/HTTP.