New GET https://{ip}/cws/app{xx}/api/packageManifest route returning a JSON
package manifest (Essentials + plugins + user interfaces) shaped to hydrate
the vsce-essentials-version-manager extension's VersionsSnapshot object.
- EssentialsConfig.cs: add [JsonProperty("versions")] to EssentialsConfig.Versions
(was attribute-less); add NugetVersion.Name; NullValueHandling.Ignore on
PackageId/RepoUrl/Name.
- New GetPackageManifestRequestHandler: deep-copies the config's VersionData
(never mutates the live config object), then enriches it via reflection:
- essentials: version from Global.AssemblyVersion, repoUrl/name from the
RepositoryUrl AssemblyMetadata + AssemblyProduct of
PepperDash.Essentials.Core's own assembly (PluginLoader.EssentialsAssembly.Assembly
is null at runtime due to a pre-existing name-matching bug, so this route
reads its own loaded assembly instead), packageId from config or a constant.
- packages[]: merges PluginLoader.EssentialsPluginAssemblies (matched to config
packages by packageId via AssemblyTitle -> AssemblyName -> AssemblyName minus
a trailing .4Series suffix) with reflection supplying version and filling
missing repoUrl/name; unmatched loaded assemblies are emitted without a
packageId; configured-but-not-loaded packages pass through unchanged.
- userInterfaces/touchpanelWrapperApp are passed through from config as-is.
- Entries with no resolvable version are skipped (the extension's parser drops
entries whose version isn't a string).
- EssentialsWebApi.cs: register the new packageManifest route next to versions.
Build verified clean (Core + Essentials program, 0 errors). Not yet tested on
hardware.
