Spliting the project config and misc tricks

[j3k0]

For feeding future thoughts...

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In my project I've decided to split the project.apm file into 2 different files:

• project/dependencies.json contains {"dependencies": [...], "repositories": [...]}
• project/configuration.json contains {"identifier":"<id>", "version": "1.0.0", "configuration": [...]} (basically all the rest).

The reason is that this allows my build chain to only call apm install when project/dependencies.json is more recent than the content of apm_packages.

project.apm is generated by doing cat project/*.json | jq -s '.[0] * .[1]' > project.apm

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This isn't built-in apm so to install a dependency I manually edit the dependencies.json file. I actually don't mind, editing JSON is totally fine with me.

An idea for apm to support this use case natively would be to allow using multiple project.apm files:

For example:

• apm -project project/dependencies.json install
• apm -project project/configuration.json project config
• apm -project project/configuration.json -project project/dependencies.json generate app-descriptor

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Another trick I use is to generate a src/Version.as file from project/configuration.json:

VERSION="$(cat project/configuration.json | jq --raw-output .version)"
echo "package{public class Version{public static const LABEL:String=\"$VERSION\";}}" > src/Version.as

This way I can show the users the version of the app they use in the corner of the screen.

Maybe would be a useful generator to add to apm in the future?

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For reference, relevant parts of the Makefile:

APM_PROJECT_FILE = project.apm
APM_PACKAGES = .apm_packages_update

$(APM_PACKAGES): project/dependencies.json $(AIR_SDK_INSTALL)
        # $(APM_PACKAGES)
        $(MAKE) $(APM_PROJECT_FILE)
        mkdir -p $(APM_PROJECT_DIRECTORY)
        cd $(APM_PROJECT_DIRECTORY) && AIR_HOME="$(AIR_SDK)" JAVA_HOME="$(JAVA_SDK)" $(APM) install
        touch $(APM_PACKAGES)

$(APM_PROJECT_FILE): project/configuration.json project/dependencies.json
        cat project/*.json | jq -s '.[0] * .[1]' > project.apm