[VSC-1739 | 1742 | 1735]Current setup download enhancements

[brianignacio5]

Description

Fixes #1623
Fixes #1618
Fixes #1612

This pull request introduces improvements to the ESP-IDF tooling, focusing on enhancing download reliability, caching, and code maintainability. Key changes include replacing downloadFile and downloadWithRetries with a more robust downloadWithResume method, introducing caching for ESP-IDF version lists, and replacing the move function with a custom robustMove function for better error handling. Additionally, some dependencies and unused code have been removed for simplification.

Improvements to download reliability:

• Replaced downloadFile and downloadWithRetries with downloadWithResume in src/espIdf/documentation/getDocsVersion.ts, src/setup/embedGitPy.ts, and src/setup/espIdfDownload.ts to support resumable downloads. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Caching for ESP-IDF version lists:

• Added caching logic in src/setup/espIdfVersionList.ts to store and retrieve ESP-IDF version lists, reducing redundant network requests. Includes cache validation, saving, and fallback mechanisms. [1] [2]
• Implemented a fallback to GitHub releases API and local files if primary download methods fail.

Code maintainability and simplification:

• Replaced move with utils.robustMove in src/installManager.ts, src/setup/espIdfDownload.ts, and src/utils.ts to improve error handling during file operations. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
• Removed unused dependencies (follow-redirects, https-proxy-agent) and related code, simplifying package.json and src/utils.ts. [1] [2] [3]

Updates to test cases:

• Updated test cases in src/test/suite/downloadManager.test.ts to use downloadWithResume instead of downloadFile. [1] [2]

Miscellaneous:

• Updated idf_versions.txt to include new ESP-IDF versions and remove outdated ones.

Type of change

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• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• This change requires a documentation update

Steps to test this pull request

Provide a list of steps to test changes in this PR and required output

1. Click on "Configure ESP-IDF extension" command.
2. Execute action. If you can cancel the setup while ESP-IDF or ESP-IDF tool is downloading and try to run the setup again, the setup will see the existing downloaded file and will continue from where is stopped before.
3. idf_versions.txt now has a cache system with timestamp to redownload the file, also fallback to using GitHub releases api, local file or hardcoded string in code.
4. Add retry for move function in extension setup.

• Expected behaviour:

More reliable idf_versions.txt, ESP-IDF and ESP-IDF tools download mechanism.

• Expected output:

Fallback for idf_versions.txt used if unavailable first link, if download links break the user can continue the download from the previous attempt.

How has this been tested?

Manual steps as described above.

Test Configuration:

• ESP-IDF Version: Any version
• OS (Windows,Linux and macOS): macOS

Checklist

• PR Self Reviewed
• Applied Code formatting
• Added Documentation
• Added Unit Test
• Verified on all platforms - Windows,Linux and macOS

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Download the artifacts for this pull request:
You can test these changes by installing this VSIX by click menu View -> Command Palette..., type Install from VSIX and then select downloaded esp-idf-extension.vsix file to install the extension.

• esp-idf-extension.vsix.zip
  Espressif documentation preview

[radurentea]

Nice work, LGTM!

[arc12]

Thanks @brianignacio5 - nice work!

[Fabricio-ESP]

Confirmed Working.
Download is restarted from partial file.

[radurentea]

LGTM