HTML5: Get that random query string

obscure · September 26, 2019, 8:18pm

If I set up an assets folder using the project.xml file like
<assets path="assets/img" rename="img" />
and deploy to html5, the application will preload all the images inside that folder.
To prevent caching it appends a single unique random number to each filename like myAwesomeGraphic.png?938485

Is there a way to retrieve the value inside the template index.html file using the funky
haxe ::myVariable:: templates notation?
So far I just figured out it might be the cacheVersion function of the AssetsMacro class.

rainy · September 27, 2019, 12:40am

lime.utils.Assets.cache.version;

This value can be obtained by this.

obscure · September 27, 2019, 12:48am

Thank you rainy but unfortunately that’s not what I meant. I don’t need the value inside my code - I need it in lime’s default html5 index.html template.
For example ::APP_TITLE::

github.com

openfl/lime/blob/develop/templates/html5/template/index.html#L7


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>


	<meta charset="utf-8">


	<title>::APP_TITLE::</title>


	<meta id="viewport" name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />
	<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">


	::if favicons::::foreach (favicons)::
	<link rel="::__current__.rel::" type="::__current__.type::" href="::__current__.href::">::end::::end::


	::if linkedLibraries::::foreach (linkedLibraries)::
	<script type="text/javascript" src="::__current__::"></script>::end::::end::
	<script type="text/javascript" src="./::APP_FILE::.js"></script>

singmajesty · September 30, 2019, 5:54pm

The templates are processed as part of the UPDATE step in the build but the Assets.cache.version value is set by default in a macro during the BUILD step after update is already completed

You can use -Dlime-assets-version=123 to force Assets.cache.version to a new value and ::DEFINE_LIME_ASSETS_VERSION:: in the template HTML I think