Thank you both I will give both a try and be back with more questions :) On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 6:57 PM Skip Lentz <skip.le...@inria.fr> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Dec 4, 2015, at 11:56 AM, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > because I am clueless with web dev can you help me understand how to do > this with ZnClient ? > > > I tried some things, such as this snippet: > > ZnClient new > setIfModifiedSince: DateAndTime now; > contentReader: [ :entity | ZipArchive new readFrom: entity readStream ]; > get: 'https://api.github.com/repos/kilon/ChronosManager/zipball/master' > > But the response does not have a Last-Modified date. > > So what you probably want is the date of the latest commit to master (or > whatever branch). Considering you do want to minimize dependencies and > therefore not use the API bindings, the following could be done: > > client := ZnClient new. > " Get latest commit list, we only care about the response in this case " > client > setIfModifiedSince: (Date year: 2015 month: 12 day: 1); > get: 'https://api.github.com/repos/kilon/ChronosManager/commits?sha=master > '. > client response isNotModified > ifTrue: [ nil ] > ifFalse: [ > client > contentReader: [ :entity | ZipArchive new readFrom: entity readStream ]; > get: 'https://api.github.com/repos/kilon/ChronosManager/zipball/master'] > > So you need in total three GET requests, since the second request responds > with a redirect. The first request does not count to the API rate limit if > it returns a 304 Not Modified. >
