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Manifest Specification

A lite-xl manifest is a JSON file containing three different keys:

  • Remotes
  • Addons
  • Lite-XLs

Remotes

A simple array of string repository identifiers. A repository identifier takes the form of a git remote url, i.e. <url>:<ref>. An example would be:

https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl-plugin-manager.git:latest

Addons

Addons are the primary objects specified in this specification. An addon consists of a series of metadata, the path to the addon in this repository, or its location on a remote repository, or a publically accessible URL, and a set of files to be downloaded with the plugin (usually releases, but can be data files, or fonts, or anything else).

Addons can optionally specify a type, which determines where they're installed. Currently three types are supported:

  • library
  • plugin
  • color
  • font
  • meta

Addons are further classified into two organizational categories. singleton addons, and complex addons. Addons are listed a singleton if and only if they consist of exactly one file, have an empty or absent files specification, and do not specify a remote. Singleton addons consist of exactly one .lua file, named after the addon. Complex addons are contained within a folder, and have an init.lua or init.so file that loads other components within it.

The vast majority of addons are singleton plugins.

Metadata

Fields that are required are bolded.

  • id: The semantic id of the addon, a string only containing [a-z0-9\-_].
  • version: The addon's semantic version (major.minor.revision). A string that matches the regex ^[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+){0,2}$.
  • mod_version: The mod_version this addon is compatible with. A string that can contain [0-9\.]. If type is library, this field is optional.
  • type: An optional string that specifies the addon type. Valid values are "plugin" "library", "color","font", or "meta". Defaults to "plugin".
  • name: The optional name of the addon.
  • description: An optional english-language description of the addon.
  • provides: An optional array of strings that are a shorthand of functionality this addon provides. Can be used as a dependency.
  • replaces: An optional array of ids that this plugin explicitly replaces. Will always prefer this plugin in place of those plugins, so long as version requirements are met.
  • remote: Optional. Specifies a public https git link where this addon is located. If present, denotes a stub.
  • dependencies: Optionally a hash of dependencies required, or optional for this addon.
  • conflicts: An optional hash of addons which conflict with this one, in the same format as dependencies.
  • tags: Optional freeform tags that may describe attributes of the addon.
  • path: Optional path to the addon. If omitted, will only pull the files in files. To pull the whole repository, use ".".
  • arch: Optionally a list of architectures this plugin supports. If not present, and no files that specify arches, assumes that plugin is valid for all architectures. If not present, and at least one files exists that specifies an architecture, only assumed to be valid for all arches specified under files. Can be either an array of arch names, or can be "*" to explicitly specify all architectures.
  • post: Optionally a string which represents a command to run. If presented with a dictionary, takes ARCH keys, and runs a different command per ARCH.
  • url: Optionally a URL which specifies a direct download link to a single lua file. precludes the use of remote, path. Usually a singleton.
  • checksum: Provides a checksum to check against a url.
  • extra: Optionally a dictionary which holds any desired extra information.

Any keys not present in this official listing render the manifest non-conforming. Any extra keys should be placed in extra. An example of keys that can be placed in extra that some plugin managers/displays will use are:

  • author: The main author of the addon.
  • license: The license under which the addon is licensed.

Dependencies

Depedencies are specified in an object, with the key being the id of the addon depended upon, or a provides alias.

Dependency values are an object which contain the following keys:

  • version: A version specifier. (see below).
  • optional: A boolean that determines whether the dependency is optional.

Stubs

If an addon likes, it can specify a particular remote; a publically acessible git repository, accessed via HTTPS, pinned at a specific commit to be used as a source for its data. In that case, the package manager must download the repository, and interpret the manifest file found there to determine the addon's metadata.

This is known as a stub.

Files

Files are objects that contain at least two keys, url, and checksum. They can also optionally contain the arch and path keys.

  • url represents the URL to grab the particular file from.
  • checksum is the sha256hex checksum for the file. If "SKIP" is specified, the check is skipped. This is fine for development purposes, but any publically accessible manifest, should specify a checksum.
  • arch is the lite-xl/clang architecture tuple that the file is relevant for. if omitted, file is to be assumed to be valid for all arhcitectures. Can be an array.
  • path is the location to install this file inside the addon's directory.
  • optional is a boolean that determines whether the file is an optional addition; if omitted, the file is assumed to be required.

If a file is an archive, of either .zip, .xz, .gz, .tgz, .txz, or .tar.gz, it will automatically be extracted inside the addon's directory.

Lite-XLs

Lite-XLs represent different version of lite-xl that are registered in this repository. Lite-XLs has the following metadata, as well as a files array.

  • version: A version specifier. Must take the form of x(.x)*(-suffix). Suffixes can be used to denote different flavours of lite-xl.
  • mod_version: The modversion the binary corresponds to.

Files

The files array is identical to that of the files array under addons. Conventionally, there should be a single file per architecture that is a .tar.gz or .zip containing all necessary files for lite-xl to run.

Version Specifiers

When asking for a version, all fields can use inequality operators to specify the version to be asked for. As an example, >=0.1 can be used to specify that any version greater than 0.1 can be used.

Example File

{
  "addons": [ # The addons array contains a list of all addons registered on this repository.
    {
      "id": "plugin_manager", # Unique name, used to reference the plugin.
      "version": "0.1", # Semantic version.
      "description": "A GUI interface to the Adam's lite plugin manager.", # English description of the plugin.
      "path": "plugins/plugin_manager", # The path to the plugin in this repository.
      "mod_version": "3", # The mod_version this plugin corresponds to.
      "provides": [ # A list of small strings that represent functionalities this plugin provides.
        "plugin-manager"
      ],
      "files": [ # A list of files (usually binaries) this plugin requires to function.
        {
          "url": "https://github.com/adamharrison/lite-xl-plugin-manager/releases/download/v0.1/lpm.x86_64-linux", # A publically accessible URL to download from.
          "arch": "x86_64-linux", # The lite-xl/clang target tuple that represents the architecture this file is for.
          "checksum": "d27f03c850bacdf808436722cd16e2d7649683e017fe6267934eeeedbcd21096" # the sha256hex checksum that corresponds to this file.
        },
        {
          "url": "https://github.com/adamharrison/lite-xl-plugin-manager/releases/download/v0.1/lpm.x86_64-windows.exe",
          "arch": "x86_64-windows",
          "checksum": "2ed993ed4376e1840b0824d7619f2d3447891d3aa234459378fcf9387c4e4680"
        }
      ],
      "dependencies": {
        "json": {} # Depeneds on `json`, can be a plugin's name or one of its `provides`.
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "RobotoMono",
      "version": "0.1",
      "type": "font",
      "description": "Roboto Mono font.",
      "files": [ # Downloads all files listed here to USERDIR/fonts.

        {
          "url": "https://github.com/googlefonts/RobotoMono/raw/26adf5193624f05ba1743797d00bcf0e6bfe624f/fonts/ttf/RobotoMono-Regular.ttf",
          "checksum": "7432e74ff02682c6e207be405f00381569ec96aa247d232762fe721ae41b39e2"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "json",
      "version": "1.0",
      "description": "JSON support plugin, provides encoding/decoding.",
      "type": "library",
      "path": "plugins/json.lua",
      "provides": [
        "json"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": ["language"],
      "description": "Syntax for .gitignore, .dockerignore and some other `.*ignore` files",
      "version": "1.0",
      "mod_version": "3",
      "remote": "https://github.com/anthonyaxenov/lite-xl-ignore-syntax:2ed993ed4376e1840b0824d7619f2d3447891d3aa234459378fcf9387c4e4680", # The remote to be used for this plugin.
      "id": "language_ignore",
      "post": {"x86-linux":"cp language_ignore.lua /tmp/somewhere-else", "x86-windows":"COPY language_ignore.lua C:\\Users\\Someone\\ignore.lua"} # Post download steps to run to fully set up the plugin. Does not run by default, requires --post.
    },
    {
      "description": "Provides a GUI to manage core and plugin settings, bindings and select color theme. Depends on widget.",
      "dependencies": {
        "toolbarview": { "version": ">=1.0" },
        "widget": { "version": ">=1.0" }
      },
      "version": "1.0",
      "mod_version": "3",
      "path": "plugins/settings.lua",
      "id": "settings"
    },
    {
      "description": "Syntax for Kaitai struct files",
      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/whiteh0le/lite-plugins/main/plugins/language_ksy.lua?raw=1", # URL directly to the singleton plugin file.
      "id": "language_ksy",
      "version": "1.0",
      "mod_version": "3",
      "checksum": "08a9f8635b09a98cec9dfca8bb65f24fd7b6585c7e8308773e7ddff9a3e5a60f", # Checksum for this particular URL.
    }
  ],
  "lite-xls": [ # An array of lite-xl releases.
    {
      "version": "2.1-simplified", # The version, followed by a release suffix defining the release flavour. The only releases that are permitted to not have suffixes are official relases.
      "mod_version": "3", # The mod_version this release corresponds to.
      "files": [ # Identical to `files` under `addons`, although these are usually simply archives to be extracted.
        {
          "arch": "x86_64-linux",
          "url": "https://github.com/adamharrison/lite-xl-simplified/releases/download/v2.1/lite-xl-2.1.0-simplified-x86_64-linux.tar.gz",
          "checksum": "b5087bd03fb491c9424485ba5cb16fe3bb0a6473fdc801704e43f82cdf960448"
        },
        {
          "arch": "x86_64-windows",
          "url": "https://github.com/adamharrison/lite-xl-simplified/releases/download/v2.1/lite-xl-2.1.0-simplified-x86_64-windows.zip",
          "checksum": "f12cc1c172299dd25575ae1b7473599a21431f9c4e14e73b271ff1429913275d"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "version": "2.1-simplified-enhanced",
      "mod_version": "3",
      "files": [
        {
          "arch": "x86_64-linux",
          "url": "https://github.com/adamharrison/lite-xl-simplified/releases/download/v2.1/lite-xl-2.1.0-simplified-x86_64-linux-enhanced.tar.gz",
          "checksum": "4625c7aac70a2834ef5ce5ba501af2d72d203441303e56147dcf8bcc4b889e40"
        },
        {
          "arch": "x86_64-windows",
          "url": "https://github.com/adamharrison/lite-xl-simplified/releases/download/v2.1/lite-xl-2.1.0-simplified-x86_64-windows-enhanced.zip",
          "checksum": "5ac009e3d5a5c99ca7fbd4f6b5bd4e25612909bf59c0925eddb41fe294ce28a4"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "remotes": [ # A list of remote specifiers. The plugin manager will pull these in and add them as additional repositories if specified to do so with a flag.
    "https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl-plugins.git:2.1",
    "https://github.com/adamharrison/lite-xl-simplified.git:v2.1"
  ]
}
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