requires field in manifest?

[david]

I noticed after pushing our manifest that an empty array named
"requires" appeared in heroku's version of the manifest. I can think
of various ways this might be useful -- but what is it for? (I am
hoping it is either a list of add-ons that are prerequisites, or a
list of libraries that need to be loaded in order to use the add-on.)

I'm also wondering about the version and sso_url fields, which don't
seem to be documented either.

--david

[Morten Bagai]

Hi David,

"requires" is actually for when an add-on requires permission to execute certain actions on behalf of the Heroku user as part of operating the add-on. One example of that would be an auto-scaling add-on that needs to be able to change dynos. With the addition of this new API feature it will be possible to do such things without requiring the user to provide their account creds and/or API key.

This feature is still in private testing. We'll have more info on it as it's finalized.

-M