Re: [GMG-Devel] Plugins plans

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Okay, some short news on this by the way:

We now have hook_handle, hook_runall, and hook_transform.
  
http://docs.mediagoblin.org/pluginwriter/api.html#mediagoblin.tools.pluginapi.hook_handle

This should cover almost all plugin needs!  I'll start putting examples
soon in the codebase.  But basically, yes, between these methods, we
could for example:

 - fetch storage interfaces via hook_handle
 - run through a series of fucntions via hook_runall or retrieve a list
   of things from plugins
 - extend existing wtforms forms via hook_transform (each one could
   subclass the main form... I might add some utilities to make this
   easier but it already works)

This should cover 95% of our needs.  The other 5% I think can be handled
by the evil metadecorator stuff... I'll start working on that next
week.  This week is going to involve a lot of code reviews because I'm
behind :)

Happy to answer questions on IRC!
 - Chris