Puzzle Downloader

Status: Implemented | 2022

Puzzle downloaders are a way to have an external program acquire puzzles. It could be from a blog, potentially from the gnome.org site later on, or from other sources. They are configured in the puzzle-set puzzle.config file as part of a puzzle-set. See the [Downloader] section of puzzle-set-resource.md for more information on how to create one.

Invocation

Puzzle downloaders are expected to be invoked based on the type of downloader they are. The Command string in the config file will determine how it’s called, with the appropriate argument replaced with the user value. So, for example, a date string with the command downloader --date %D will be run with the date the user selected.

  • auto: $COMMAND

  • date: $COMMAND %D

  • entry: $COMMAND %S

  • uri: $COMMAND %U

  • number: COMMAND %N

The downloader should download the puzzle, print it to stdout in .puz or .ipuz format, and return 0 to indicate everything was successful. Any other value indicates that the file was not downloaded correctly. In addition, any string to stderr is passed to the user as a user-visible error message.

Note: downloaders must support either .puz or .ipuz files in the output and .puz files must have ConvertPuzToIpuz set to True. We do not currently do any mime sniffing to allow both formats to be supported simultaneously.

Args

  • %D: User selected date in ISO 8601 format (eg. YYYY-MM-DD)

  • %U: A user entered URI

  • %N: A user selected integer. It’s between the limits configured, if they’re set

  • %S: The string in the entry field. No validation is done.

Installation

TBD.

Sandboxing

TBD.