GSoC14:Ryzom App Improvements : POST MIDTERM

Created by Shubham Meena
Last updated: Jul 18, 2014
2 min read

Cheered that I passed the midterms :) . Hats off to my mentor Matthew Lagoe , who has been patient with me, throughout literally helping me with tiny bits, and bearing my silly mistakes. Have learnt a lot under him.

The task is to include plugins into AMS for that i have to call the hooks of respective plugins. Every plugin must contains a .info file where all the information regarding that is plugin is stored in a format. The format is as follows:

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PluginName = {Name of the plugin }

Description = {Description of the plugin}

Version = {version of the plugin}

Type = {Type of plugin ( Automatic / Manual )}

PathFile = { Path of the index file to load using hooks}

//if plugin is a update then this option is must as well as change in the versioning

UpdateInfo = { what update is added in the plugin }

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Now, when a plugin is installed and is activated , AMS start collecting hooks included in the $PluginName.php . Hooks works as follows:

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//display hook

function $PluginName_hook_display(){

//to display in menu bar user option $plugin_display['menu_display'] = {what you want to display in menu bar}

****** it will automatically takes the PathFile from .info to use  with this display hook.

}

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We are thinking of more hooks that will help others to build plugins that supports Account Management System.

Also , Got a new instance withhttp://shub_evil.gsoc2014.ryzomcore.org. Thanks a lot to the RyzomCore team . This would be used for doing my dev-testing with larger data sets, and real time performance assessments.

My next task is to creating REST Api to interact plugins with the API's and will also , bring more options in the plugin functionalities.