On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Thadeus Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > We have not fully agreed on the spec of PluginManager, it has been > added as a proof of concept, however no plugins to date have been > implemented with it. There are hundreds of posts debated what it > should do. > > Currently the spec for plugins is you can do anything you want as long > as it has the word plugin_ in front of it. > > PluginManager is an attempt to clean up the global namespace, so you > don't have tons of plugins littering with their own variables and > such. > > Not sure if you have seen this... > http://static.thadeusb.com/Web2py%20Plugin%20Specification.pdf My confusion was thinking that something in the released branch was ready for use and not a proof of concept. I notice what's there disagrees with the specification above (which I hadn't seen before) in that PluginManager in the released tools.py takes 1 arg, called 'env' and not a DAL and not a default value for that DAL either.
One concept that I do need and will be prototyping is that of a persistent DAL connection. A plugin DAL should not exist just for the life of a request, and obviously then would have to manage it's own transactions. But the plugin I'm writing kind of needs it. It instantiates a singleton class that starts it's own thread to manage a scheduler, currently obviously at the end of the initial request that started the singleton the passed database connection is no longer valid. I could pass the DAL knowledge to the singleton but that seems 'wrong' And actually this is getting far afield of the original topic... On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:04 AM, AsmanCom <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > a Task Scheduler Plugin would be very nice. > Kindly keep me posted about your progress! > > What exactly is the Problem, do you have a traceback? >> plugins = PluginManager() >> db = plugins.plugin_scheduler.db or None My only problem was the comments in the source trunk didn't match the actual implementation 2 lines later :) I've moved on past it but was a bit confused.
