Unattended / Silent uninstallation for extentions

Tushar_Bhaware · October 28, 2022, 1:58pm

Hi All,

I was looking for an unattended or silent way to uninstall extensions but couldn’t find any documentation.

The below document only talks about installation but

It would be great if anyone could share documentation or steps for this.

Thanks for all the help in advance.

Lucee version: 5.3.9.141

Zackster · October 28, 2022, 2:00pm

there are two approaches

you can drop the extensions (*.lex files) into the /deploy folder

or set an env var LUCEE_EXTENSIONS

Tushar_Bhaware · October 28, 2022, 2:03pm

Thanks for the reply.

The above link talks about installing the extension. I am looking for uninstallation of the extension.

Zackster · October 28, 2022, 2:10pm

don’t think we have any other option than the <cfadmin> approach

github.com

lucee/Lucee/blob/6.0/core/src/main/cfml/context/admin/ext.applications.cfm#L93


      
          		</cfcase>
          		<cfcase value="#stText.Buttons.upDown#">
          			<cfadmin
          			    action="updateRHExtension"
          			    type="#request.adminType#"
          			    password="#session["password"&request.adminType]#"
          				source="#downloadFull(form.provider,form.id,form.version)#">
          			<cfset application.reloadPlugins = true>
          		</cfcase>
                  <cfcase value="#stText.Buttons.uninstall#">
                  	<cfadmin
          			    action="removeRHExtension"
          			    type="#request.adminType#"
          			    password="#session["password"&request.adminType]#"
          				id="#form.id#">
          			<cfset application.reloadPlugins = true>
          		</cfcase>
          	</cfswitch>
          	<cfscript>
          		if (structKeyExists(application, "reloadPlugins")){
          			inspectTemplates(); // flag page pool to be re-inspected for changes

Tushar_Bhaware · October 28, 2022, 2:14pm

Ok, thank you.

I will try this approach.

bdw429s · October 28, 2022, 2:28pm

Related (5 yr old) ticket: [LDEV-1585] - Lucee

And yes, that ticket is for installing, not uninstalling. My original goal was to have have a full set of BIFs for managing extensions programmatically from CFML, but I don’t think we ever got anything other than ExtensionList() and ExtensionExists().

cfmitrah · October 28, 2022, 2:37pm

@Tushar_Bhaware using Administrator cfc instead of cfadmin is always good. because cfadmin is not an official tag to use outside of the Admin.

like

adm = new Administrator("server or web", your_admin_password);
adm.removeExtension(ID_of_extension);

github.com

lucee/Lucee/blob/6bbceb5f727638b09ce028bac61662282b502f56/core/src/main/java/resource/component/org/lucee/cfml/Administrator.cfc#L865


      
          				type=variables.type
          				password=variables.password
          				source=arguments.id;
          		}
          	}
          
          
	/**
          	* @hint removes(uninstall) a specific extension.
          	* @id id of the extension to be removed
          	*/
          	public void function removeExtension( required string id  ){
          		admin
          			action="removeRHExtension"
          			type="#variables.type#"
          			password="#variables.password#"
          			id="#arguments.id#";
          	}
          
          

          
	/**
          	* @hint returns the list of server extension