Until now products could declare multiple auto-update methods, but they all had to be of the same kind.
For example if you used the git auto-update method, you could not use an additional github_releases or custom auto-update method.
This is an issue as it prevents us to extend the auto-update process, for example by having a product using the 'git' auto-update method to retrieve all the versions, and a custom script to retrieve support and EOL dates.
This improve the scripts execution orchestration to be able to support auto configurations using a mix of methods, meaning:
- multiple kind of methods, such as git and github_release,
- or multiple custom methods.
A side-effect of those changes is that now a failure in a generic script does not cancel the update of subsequent products.
Another side-effect, unwanted this time, is that now custom scripts managing multiple products, such as apple.py, are now executed multiple times instead of once.
Generic support for cumulative updates has been added to speed up execution time of some scripts that were very long (in comparison with the vast majority of products), usually because they were involving a lot of HTTP requests.
This feature was developed particularily for the firefox.py and unity.py scripts, which was often very long to execute (a minute or moreaccording to GHA summaries). Those scripts has been updated to make use of this new feature.
This way the writing of the JSON file is handled automatically if the update does not fail.
It pave the way to further global improvements, such as a better error handling.
It may not be the best place for that (gha.py would have been better), but it's the shorter / faster way to do it for now.
Moreover it now uses logging for writing the group. The logger format has been updated for this to work. This was done to fix issues on GitHub Action logs, where groups were declared after the logs.
Create common functions parse_date, parse_month_year_date and parse_datetime.
Those functions support trying multiple formats, and come with default formats lists that support most of the date format encountered so far.
Notable change: year-month dates are now set to the end of month (impacted couchbase-server and ibm-aix).
Move the parallel URL fetching from firefox.py to endoflife.py to make available parallel URL fetching for all scripts.
Also a a fix found on https://stackoverflow.com/a/44511691/374236 to avoid ChunkedEncodingError.
Recently links to web.archive.org were added for various products. Such links are very long to load. This increases the default timeout value so that such links do not make the update fail.
Create a common function to write resulting JSON files to the releases directory.
It makes this task simpler to read and maintain, while making it modifiable at a central point in the future.
One example of such modification could be the sorting of the versions in a uniform way for all the scripts.
This creates a common function to fetch HTTP URLs, with enhanced capabilities (retry, use of a known User-Agent).
It makes scripts that need those capabilities simpler, while improving other scripts.
This commit also fixes some scripts that did not log properly (cos.py, eks.py, haproxy.py, palo-alto-networks.py, rhel.py, ros.py, unrealircd.py).
