AppAPI 2.0 Release Information

[bigcat88]

We are preparing with joy and optimism for the release of AppAPI version 2.0

Ref: #212

The main innovations of this version for Administrators:

1. Implemented Docker Socket Proxy (https://github.com/cloud-py-api/docker-socket-proxy)
2. Added the ability to install applications on a remote docker using Docker Socket Proxy with HTTPS
3. The Daemon creation UI has been rewritten, creating demons using selectable templates has been implemented
4. Creation of Daemons now is much simpler with less params, Unraid/Proxmox/etc.. are now easy supported.

The main cool difference for the developers:

1. Nextcloud Talk Bots now should use AppAPI authentication for incoming endpoints
2. Field protocol in info.xml is deprecated and ignored from now. All ExApps should implement only simple HTTP.
3. occ app_api:app:register appName manual_install --json-info - does not require protocol or host fields anymore, these values are from now calculated based on Daemon values.
4. If you have part of application in PHP, then to communicate with ExApp you should use exAppRequest or exAppRequestWithUserInit from PublicFunctions.php, as it handles new Auth correctly for Docker Socket Proxy installs.

How to Update from 1.x version to 2.0 version?

Ideal variant is:

1. Remove all ExApps
2. Remove all Daemons
3. Uninstall AppAPI 1.4.x
4. Install AppAPI 2.0

Variant when you first got update to AppAPI 2.0 and after that found this topic:

0. Try Remove all ExApps and after that all Daemons, after that uninstall AppAPI.
1. Truncate oc_ex_apps, oc_ex_apps_daemons, oc_appconfig_ex, oc_preferences_ex tables.
2. For talk bots, truncate: oc_talk_bots_conversation, oc_talk_bots_server tables.
3. Reset memcache(in case of redis, do: redis-cli and flushAll after that inside redis command line)

Feel free to ask questions inside this topic if something is unclear.

[szaimen]

• Remove all ExApps
• Remove all Daemons
• Uninstall AppAPI 1.4.x
• Install AppAPI 2.0

This is not possible in AIO. Cannot you take care of this during the upgrade of the app?

[szaimen]

What happens if you dont do this and simply update the app?

[bigcat88]

IMHO: in AIO, in theory, everything should be fine with the deployment daemon, since AIO Docker Socket Proxy did not changed.

Related to ExApps: there were no so much of them, and the changes were only to TalkBots API.

[szaimen]

All right, thanks! I guess we dont need to adjust things in AIO then.