Author Topic: extension API for "replace" does not trigger database updates (Read 323 times)

SarahG (FountainTribe) · September 21, 2014, 05:20:39 am

I am using the native extension APIs to update the version of various extensions. My current code is:

$manager = CRM_Extension_System::singleton()->getManager();
$manager->refresh(); 
$manager->replace($replace_parm);

But when I go to the page at: http://mygroup.org/civicrm/admin/extensions?reset=1

I get an alert reading "Your extensions require database updates. Please execute the updates."

When I read the code comments for the replace function on GitHub ( https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/blob/4.4/CRM/Extension/Manager.php) I see the following:
* Install or upgrade the code for an extension -- and perform any
* necessary database changes (eg replacing extension metadata).
*

What should I be doing so that the extension database updates get triggered from within my code?

totten · September 21, 2014, 11:10:58 am

Ah, those code comments are bit misleading. Let's rephrase:

CRM_Extension_Manager::replace() performs any DB updates for internal state of the extension-manager -- e.g. inserting/updating records in civicrm_extension or resetting cached info about the extension file structure.
For DB updates defined by third-party developers (e.g. using hook_civicrm_upgrade or civix's "Upgrader" class to define a custom SQL table), one calls CRM_Extension_Upgrades. In 4.5, this is most easily done with the "Extension.upgrade" API. (I suspect it wouldn't be very hard to backport.)

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