requestUpdateCheck method

Future<RequestUpdateCheckCallbackResult> requestUpdateCheck()

Requests an immediate update check be done for this app/extension. Important: Most extensions/apps should not use this method, since Chrome already does automatic checks every few hours, and you can listen for the runtime.onUpdateAvailable event without needing to call requestUpdateCheck.

This method is only appropriate to call in very limited circumstances, such as if your extension/app talks to a backend service, and the backend service has determined that the client extension/app version is very far out of date and you'd like to prompt a user to update. Most other uses of requestUpdateCheck, such as calling it unconditionally based on a repeating timer, probably only serve to waste client, network, and server resources.

Note: When called with a callback, instead of returning an object this function will return the two properties as separate arguments passed to the callback.

Implementation

Future<RequestUpdateCheckCallbackResult> requestUpdateCheck() async {
  var $res = await promiseToFuture<$js.RequestUpdateCheckCallbackResult>(
      $js.chrome.runtime.requestUpdateCheck());
  return RequestUpdateCheckCallbackResult.fromJS($res);
}