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Update pkpass files from the web
Pkpass files can be updated online: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/walletpasses/adding-a-web-service-to-update-passes
While the documentation suggests this is mostly for changes like boarding gate for plane travel, some organizations seem to use it to "expire" passes periodically, breaking them if you don't update them: https://mastodontech.de/@Smojo/113973063261105479
It should be possible to check for updates, perhaps even automatically on a schedule.
Extra care needs to be taken to try to not override user changes (if made), although a first version could perhaps just warn that it will override. Looking deeper into it should hopefully surface the complexity.
Just checked the repo here and as there are a lot of issue and feature requests, I was wondering if you have some kind of roadmap planned for yourself and if there is a rough estimation when you will work on this one? (I was the one who asked for it on Mastodon ;-) )
Roadmap: Order I happen to feel like working on stuff ETA: When I have time, energy and feel like working on it
Sending in a PR is a way faster way to get new features implemented generally, it's a lot of work and, well, after 40 hours of $DAYJOB there is only so many hours I can put up with extra unpaid IT work :P
This floss app allows to update pkpass files: https://github.com/SeineEloquenz/fosswallet/tree/main/app%2Fsrc%2Fmain%2Fjava%2Fnz%2Feloque%2Ffoss_wallet%2Fapi
@benjuade thanks for the hint. I use this https://github.com/ligi/PassAndroid right now which allows to update pkpass files as well. In the Readme of FossWallet I see that it is inspired by PassAndroid. I moved to FossWallet as the UI seems to be a bit more modern and it feels better maintained ;-).
The reason I started the discussion here is just, that I would like to have all cards/tickets/etc. at one place.
@Smojo agree with you. Since both projects use a GPL-3 license, it should be possible to adapt that code for syncing pkpass files and properly reference that it has been used with modifications here. Unfortunately I know very little JAVA/Kotlin.