Disable "check for updates"

[Otiel]

Kiota is checking for updates by making a request to https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/kiota/releases each time a command is started.

I'm working in an offline environment with no Internet access, so this check is useless for me and time consuming because I have to wait for the network timeout in order for Kiota to actually do the work.

How can I disable checking for updates?

[baywet]

Hi @Otiel ,
Thanks for using kiota and for reaching out.
This is not possible today, but we could add an environment variable to support this.
I suggest we name this environment variable "KIOTA_OFFLINE_ENABLED" or something along those lines.
The check for the new version is being done here.

kiota/src/kiota/Handlers/BaseKiotaCommandHandler.cs

Line 100 in fa26451

var updateService = new UpdateService(httpClient, logger, Configuration.Update);

And you can read the environment variable from the configuration

Lastly, we should add an entry to this table

With all those details in mind, is this something you'd be interested in submitting a pull request for?