Intermediate process before asking admin password

[buzunboy]

Summary

• Hi, we are using .pkg distribution for our Sparkle updates, and we would like to make things more automated. We use our custom drivers and directly using SPUUpdater, and the idea is we download automatically the updates and only inform the user once before we need to ask for admin password, which is happening when extraction starts.

• Is it possible to add a new delegate method for SPUUpdaterDelegate which only continues to extraction if reply block is called, like below:

Possible Fix

- (void)downloadDriverDidDownloadUpdate:(SPUDownloadedUpdate *)downloadedUpdate
{
   ... 
    _resumableUpdate = downloadedUpdate;

    if (updater != nil && [updaterDelegate respondsToSelector:@selector(updater:shouldStartExtracting:invocation:)]) {
        [updaterDelegate updater:updater shouldStartExtracting:_updateItem invocation:^{
            dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
                [self extractUpdate:downloadedUpdate];
            });
        }];
    } else {
        [self extractUpdate:downloadedUpdate];
    }
}

and with new method in the SPUUpdaterDelegate.h:

- (void)updater:(SPUUpdater *)updater shouldStartExtracting:(SUAppcastItem *)item invocation:(void (^)(void))reply;

So flow would be like:

1. User/App calls SPUUpdater.checkForUpdates
2. Sparkle calls func showUpdateFound(with appcastItem: SUAppcastItem, state: SPUUserUpdateState, reply: @escaping (SPUUserUpdateChoice) -> Void)
3. App automatically replies with reply(.install)
4. Sparkle starts & finishes the download, before extracting checks the implementation of updater:shouldStartExtracting:invocation: and only continues to extract if it's responded and invocation is called by the app.

I can create a pull request as well, posted as an issue to discuss first.

Thanks and best

Version

2.5.2, 2.6.0