[Avocado-devel] Practical use of `expire` argument on Asset class

[Willian Rampazzo]

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 3:44 PM Amador Pahim <amador at pahim.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Willian,
>
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 6:08 PM Willian Rampazzo <wrampazz at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I was looking at the Asset class and could not think about a practical
> > use of the `expire` argument. Does anyone have an example to make it
> > clear for me?
>
> The use-case that led to its implementation was the download of a
> github repository as zip. E.g.
> https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/archive/master.zip.
> Users wanted to somehow control how frequently they would download
> again from master.

Okay, I got it. In this case, there is no reason to use the asset_hash
argument as it may change every time the `master.zip` file in the
example is recreated due to repository changes.

>
> Hope that's helpful.
>

Thank you for the quick response!

> Best,
> --
> apahim
>
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Willian
> >
> >
>