ENH New method to get metadata without a network request

README.md

@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 Metadata and some supporting PHP logic for determining which branches of various GitHub repositories relate to which versions of Silverstripe CMS.
 
 > [!IMPORTANT]
-> Only the `main` branch of this repository is maintained.
+> Only the `main` branch of this repository is maintained. Stable tags must be manually created from the `main` branch. There is no auto tagging via a GitHub action. All branches other than `main` are legacy and should not be referenced going forward.
 
 You can fetch the JSON by simply fetching the raw copy of `repositories.json` file, e.g. <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/silverstripe/supported-modules/main/repositories.json>.
 
-If you've included this module as a compser dependency then you can use `SilverStripe\SupportedModules\MetaData::getAllRepositoryMetaData()` which will fetch the latest version of the JSON file from raw.githubusercontent.com.
+If you've included this module as a composer dependency then you can use `SilverStripe\SupportedModules\MetaData::getAllRepositoryMetaData()` which will fetch the latest version of the JSON file from raw.githubusercontent.com. There is a local copy of `repositories.json` in the module, though it is not guaranteed to be up to date, so only use this if fetching a fresh copy of this file is not viable.
 
 ## Format
 

src/MetaData.php

@@ -179,13 +179,16 @@ public static function removeReposNotInCmsMajor(array $metadata, string|int $cms
     }
 
     /**
-     * Get all metadata about all repositories we have information about.
+     * Get all metadata about all repositories we have information about. This will make a newtwork
+     * request to fetch the latest data from the supported-modules repository.
      * @param bool $categorised If true, output is grouped by category.
+     * @param bool $fromRemote If true, fetch the data from the remote repository.
+     *                         If false, use the local file.
      */
-    public static function getAllRepositoryMetaData(bool $categorised = true): array
+    public static function getAllRepositoryMetaData(bool $categorised = true, $fromRemote = true): array
     {
         if (empty(self::$repositoryMetaData)) {
-            if (self::$isRunningUnitTests) {
+            if (self::$isRunningUnitTests || !$fromRemote) {
                 $rawJson = file_get_contents(__DIR__ . '/../repositories.json');
             } else {
                 // Dynamicallly fetch the latest data from the supported-modules repository