WooCommerce example

[MWDelaney]

Leaving this placeholder to capture work figuring this one out. At the moment I can't even figure out how it makes its update requests, but if it's capable of updating automatically in the WordPress UI, we should be able to form that request ourselves, right? ... right?

[Stormrunn3r]

Hi MWDelaney,

I'm guessing this would be for a plugin from woocommerce.com right? If so I've found a recently stale repo of another company that has something that worked for them. Maybe it gives some ideas 😄

[ethanclevenger91]

Specifically, the WIP in that project is here: https://github.com/pronamic/woocommerce-subscriptions/blob/main/.github/scripts/release.php

That could be based on a dated version of the Helper. A sort of entry point for the version in 7.6.1 can be found here: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/blob/7.6.1/plugins/woocommerce/includes/admin/helper/class-wc-helper-updater.php#L329

[ethanclevenger91]

All requests have to be authenticated with an access token that gets saved into the wp_options table. Details here. That WIP repo saves those as env vars, but not sure how they generate them. I guess you could set up a dummy WP install at some URL and then save that URL and the generated access codes as env vars. Might be good enough, but if it's an OAuth-style thing, a token may rotate with some frequency.

[MWDelaney]

That's disappointingly complicated. Another option would be to get the data from a running site with wp-cli. I'll keep thinking about it.