elgg/community_web_services

Provides web services for use on the Elgg community site.

1.9.1 2015-09-23 18:31 UTC

Requires

• composer/installers: >=1.0.8

GPL-2.0

• Core developers

• plugin
• elgg

README

Web services for the Elgg community site

Elgg version check

This web service supports Elgg sites checking if there is a newer version available for download at elgg.org.

Name

elgg.update.check

Parameters

• version: The Elgg version string

Response

The version string for the newest release in that series

Community plugins update check

Check if there are newer versions of an Elgg site's plugins available on the Elgg community site.

Name

plugins.update.check

Parameters

• plugins: An array of plugin id strings. The plugin id string is the md5 hash of the plugin directory name, plugin version, and the plugin author name.
• version: Elgg version string

Response

Array of new plugin versions available for download:

[
  {
    "plugin_id": <plugin 1 id>,
    "plugin_name": <plugin 1 name>,
    "plugin_version": <plugin 1 verson string>,
    "plugin_url": <plugin 1 homepage>,
    "download_url": <plugin 1 url>,
  },
  {
    "plugin_id": <plugin 2 id>,
    "plugin_name": <plugin 2 name>,
    "plugin_version": <plugin 2 version string>,
    "plugin_url": <plugin 2 homepage>,
    "download_url": <plugin 2 url>,
  }
]