Version 2023.9.1

[stiefeljackal]

Overview

The main purpose of this release is to address the issue where Featured World records are not being retrieved as well as issues with how the record retrieval works based on looking into. Also note that I have changed the version numbering to be Year.Month.ReleaseNumber to help distinguish this from the original tool.

Record Retrieval Issues

The original intent was to release a fix regarding Featured Worlds not being picked up by both tools as reported by Creator Jam (CJ) last weekend. However, after testing with the CJ group, I came to realize that both tools were not getting all the records from the CJ group. Looking at the CloudX implementation, it appears that it will stop gathering results when either:

• The cloud cannot find anymore records based on the search criteria.
• If the cloud returns a server error, which includes TooManyRequests or InternalServerError.

There might have been cases where not all of your records were gathered if you faced a Cloud issue, especially during the weekends. Because of this, I implemented my own record search logic. It still utilizes the Cloud and some of CloudX, but it will do the following:

• Gathers records in batches and sends them to the tool to start downloading automatically instead of waiting for everything.
• Retry 10 times if it should receive a server error from the cloud. After 10 times, it will throw an error.

Of course, the CJ group is an outlier as far as the number of records, but it is great to use to stress test. Thank you Medra for allowing me to use the group.

Incorporated Features from Original Repo

Based on my review of the original repository, this tool contains changes from 1.10.2 that was released by GuVA. However, the following major changes have not been added:

• File Extensions - This repository implements the file extensions logic differently from GuVA's. It is also another reason why this repository did not incorporate GuVA's changes from versions 1.8.0 and 1.10.1.

All third party libraries are also up-to-date at the time of writing.

Features

• Romanian language has been added to the tool (thank you @Edward205).
• Record information and assets are being downloaded at the same time as the tool continues to search for records.
• Featured world records are being gathered.
• Group-only record selections will show the Inventory & World and Assets progress.
• Persistent user selections (will be changing to be folder specific, but keeping it here for now).
• BMPCUBE file types are accounted for.

Changes

• Asset metadata is now saved in a separate folder. If you target a folder that used this tool previously, the asset metadata in the Assets folder will be moved over to its new location.
• Record retrieval has been changed to get around Cloud issues. I hope to expand more on this in a future release.

Known Issues

• The download button might still be disabled for persistent selections; you may need to check/uncheck an option to enable it.
  • I am looking to see why that is occurring.
• The error report at the end of the download is stretched out.
  • This was fixed in the original tool, but I am looking to see if there is a better way to show this information.

Checksum

Windows SHA256 (Stiefel Neos Account Downloader.exe)
589CEFA8CD3691FA94BD447BD3591BA3A699A36591B4AB909B8F3CDAF78C6C25

Linux SHA256 (Stiefel Neos Account Downloader)
962E5954A4775F376FD2FC73E7686E9D78E92ACFEBB1B52F8F10695879C17A45

Thank You

• @Edward205 for incorporating the Romanian language as a selection.
• Creator Jam (CJ) 🍞 for allowing me to originally test for missing feature worlds and for helping me discover these issues regarding record retrieval.
• Medra for allowing me to use the CJ group to test the tool out.

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This discussion was created from the release Version 2023.9.1.