I currently spike with WiX 3.11.2 to build a burn bootstrapping application that downloads packages from a local http server currently without any authentication.
Due to a lack of documentation of WiX burn I mostly reverse engineered how to set the UpdateLocation + how to check for updates via skimming through the UpdateViewModel.cs from the Wix3 repository.
As far as I have read, the
Engine.SetDownloadSource(ea.PackageOrContainerId,ea.PayloadId, dlUrl,user,pass);
can be used to download with no AUTH (last 2 parameters null) or plain authentication. Without authentication I already have a working prototype - but I will need the possibility to authenticate against a OAUTH secured web server.
If I were to need for instance to download behind a OAUTH2 authentication would the best practice be to use the OnResolveSourdce Event and instead of setting the Result to Result.Download, just do it myself with OAUTH2 libraries and download it to the ea.LocalSource so the engine basically thinks that the source has always been already available?
My second question is with regards to the UpdateLocation.
In the OnDetectUpdateBegin event I can set the ea.Result to Result.Ok if I want to check for upates - but I would like to be able to change the UpdateLocation during runtime, similar to what the Visual Studio Installer allows - to have different ReleaseFeeds, something like PROD or TESTING or Preview.
is there any possiblity to tell the Engine to set the UpdateLocation to a different URI? It would seem that the OnDetectUpdateBegin event would be perfect to change that, but the ea.UpdateLocation only has a Get, and I did not find a Engine.SetUpdate location or anything similar.
If I am not mistaken the VStudio installer is also built upon WiX so I would presume it should be somehow possible - am I missing something here?