The example backend is available here 
https://github.com/edoput/example_backend

I'll add a page documenting this feature soon

Il giorno lunedì 21 maggio 2018 20:11:38 UTC+2, Federico Capoano ha scritto:
>
> Sounds great. Could you add some documentation regarding this feature?
> You could, for example, start a page called "extending.rst" and explain 
> this concept there including an example.
>
> It will be a great chance for me as well to add a few lines on how to 
> create a new backend.
>
> Federico
>
>
> On Monday, May 21, 2018 at 5:29:42 PM UTC+3, Edoardo Putti wrote:
>>
>> The patch is from a package using netjsonconfig.
>>
>> Take AirOS as an example, I would create a project, netjsonconfig-airos, 
>> import netjsonconfig for the base classes, write my backend + templates
>> and then write the entry_point attribute in my setup.py to reference my 
>> backend class.
>>
>> Then when using netjsonconfig if I want to use the netjsonconfig-airos 
>> backend it's just a pip install away.
>>
>> I'll make an example backend soon to provide more reference to how this 
>> works
>>
>> Il giorno lunedì 21 maggio 2018 12:15:08 UTC+2, Federico Capoano ha 
>> scritto:
>>>
>>> Hi Edoardo,
>>>
>>> thanks for the patch.
>>>
>>> I'm not 100% sure I fully understood this patch in practice.
>>> In the pull request you cite a `setup.py` example, but I don't 
>>> understand if that would be the `setup.py` of a python module using 
>>> netjsonconfig or that should be the setup.py of netjsonconfig itself.
>>> Could you give a full example?
>>>
>>> If it's what I think it is, it will most likely need a bit of 
>>> documentation to help users understand how this feature works and how it 
>>> can be used.
>>>
>>> Federico
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, May 21, 2018 at 11:36:39 AM UTC+3, Edoardo Putti wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> it's been a long time since 2017 GSOC but I keep reading the digest 
>>>> from the project.
>>>>
>>>> Recently I had some time to experiment with python packaging and this 
>>>> is the result applied to netjsonconfig [0].
>>>>
>>>> This change would help integrating with custom backend that the 
>>>> community has been experimenting on that did not get merged upstream [1], 
>>>> [2], [3], [4] or simply
>>>> make writing a backend simpler without having to touch the original 
>>>> netjsonconfig code.
>>>>
>>>> I still don't know if this is the correct way to do this "find backends 
>>>> dinamically" thing so if there are more experienced python packagers 
>>>> please 
>>>> chime in.
>>>>
>>>> edoput
>>>>
>>>> [0]: https://github.com/openwisp/netjsonconfig/pull/106
>>>> [1]: https://github.com/openwisp/netjsonconfig/pull/92
>>>> [2]: https://github.com/openwisp/netjsonconfig/pull/91
>>>> [3]: 
>>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/openwisp/custom$20backend|sort:date/openwisp/BqHQQ2_TmxE/rXOLB93yBAAJ
>>>> [4]: 
>>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/openwisp/virtual$20machine|sort:date/openwisp/fOzhr1gQ-Zc/qnZX3zcWAwAJ
>>>>
>>>

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