Use JSON API for chromedriver versions

[sax]

This is a brute-force attempt to solve #2.

I'm not sure if you want to accept it as-is, because of the implicit dependency on jq. Also, it appears as if the new JSON endpoint only starts including chromedriver as of version 115.0.5763.0, which works for my needs but doesn't seem ideal.

Also note that the zip files listed in this endpoint have all of their contents internally listed at chromedriver-${platform}/*, rather than at bin/*.

At the very least, hopefully this is helpful to you as a starting point.

[schinckel]

I'm not sure we can rely on jq being installed.

[schinckel]

Actually, maybe if we state that jq is a dependency, then that should be okay.

Also, I'm seeing 113.0.5672.0 in the JSON file, so I'm okay with that.

[sax]

Oh, yeah. I wonder if it should try to filter only to versions where there are chromedriver download URLs available. Right now all the versions are listed, but only versions 115.0.5763.0 or later include chromedriver. Earlier than that and they might only contain download URLs for chrome.

[schinckel]

Hmm. Unlikely that requiring jq is going to wash; if I try to move this to asdf-community they'll likely object to it requiring something that is asdf-installable itself.

[sax]

Yeah that makes sense. I wish Darwin shipped with something like jq, it would make a lot of things easier including this.

I thought your usage of IFS in the original implementation was incredibly clever, but I just don't see how it could be used for JSON parsing.

Listing versions could use grep and/or awk. Finding download urls, though... maybe sed to replace braces, and grep with negative lookaheads to find specific patterns without jumping ahead to the next version?

[schinckel]

I'm almost certain I'm not that clever...pretty sure I pinched that idea from someone else...

[sax]

Hmmm. What would you think about the version/url parser using Ruby? While there is an asdf plugin for managing Ruby versions, an old version ships with Darwin:

 /usr/bin/ruby --version
ruby 2.6.10p210 (2022-04-12 revision 67958) [universal.arm64e-darwin22]

It wouldn't necessarily be available on Linux, however.

[schinckel]

Thanks for the contribution!