On Jun 18, 3:45 am, Geoff Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have just started making a plugin for cakephp 1.2 and have noticed a
> few oddities.
>
> The first was that the official testsuite does not include support for
> plugin tests. I have put in a ticket on trac (https://
> trac.cakephp.org/ticket/2777) with a partial patch that allows you to
> run tests stored in app/plugins/plugin_name/tests through a browser.
> (Still worrking on the TextManager). Is this something that the Test
> Suite team is working on? Or are plugins not going to be supported?
>
> The second is that plugins can't load behaviours from within
> themselves, only application level behaviours. I have not tested but
> assume that components and helpers are similar. This makes it hard to
> make a plugin self contained.
>
> Third, I think /app/plugins/plugin_name/routes.php should be supported
> and possibly self contained css, img and js.
>
> I have not had a look at doing anything for 2 and 3 so I have no idea
> how easy/viable this would be, but I think it would be a great help to
> make plugins as fully self contained as possible.
>
> Is this a goal for plugins or am I on my own here?
I think enabling plugin tests for the test suite is desirable, I know
I want it to work, for the rest have a look at existing tickets
(https://trac.cakephp.org/search?ticket=on&q=plugin),
namely:
https://trac.cakephp.org/ticket/2447
mildly relavent https://trac.cakephp.org/ticket/1897
https://trac.cakephp.org/ticket/2526
Reading routes from a plugin is imo not necessary - it's impractical
to try to load plugin routes (you need to load all routes before
parsing the url, i.e. its the app that defines the routes). However,
if you define your urls as arrays, a single change to your routes file
will work as you would expect.... if you have 2626 or something
similar in place.
hth,
AD
PS it's only behaviors atm that don't work when in a plugin.
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