[Kimchi-devel] [RFC] Plugin management - disable/enable WoK plug-ins

Hi there, I am working in a way to enable/disable WoK plug-ins using an API. This is what we already have regarding plugin management: - each plug-in has a configuration file, for example ginger.conf: [wok] # Enable Ginger plugin on Wok server (values: True|False) enable = True (...) - an API that returns all enable plug-ins: $ curl -k -u danielhb -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" -X GET 'https://localhost:8001/plugins' Enter host password for user 'danielhb': [ "gingerbase", "kimchi", "ginger" ] The API retrieves the contents of each plug-in config file and return the plug-in name if enable = True. This is my proposal to implement this new feature without messing around too much: - the /plugins API will now returns all plug-ins, regardless of the plug-in being loaded or not. In the previous example the returned value would be: [{ "name: "gingerbase", "enabled": True} , { "name: "ginger", "enabled": True}, { "name: "kimchi", "enabled": True} ] Changes in the existing API calls will be made considering this new format. - A new PUT method to change the 'enabled' attribute of the plug-ins. Changing the attribute will write the new value in the plug-in config file, allowing WoK to enable/disable the plug-in in the next reboot. - To make the changes effective we need to reboot WoK after enabling/disabling a plug-in. This can be done by either rebooting WoK in the same PUT operation I mentioned above or by a new 'reboot' API in WoK. I am more fond of a new API but I can live with this 'super PUT' API too. Note that at this moment we will not supporting load/unload of plug-ins without rebooting WoK. This has proven to be challenging considering our current plug-in loading schema in cherrypy. Thoughts? Daniel