Refine plugin architecture about thinkup

[CVi]

And custom Table fields

[ginatrapani]

I think I know what you mean, but just in case: can you explain?

[CVi]

The plugins also needs to be able to add custom fields to tables...
Or at least fields that can be joined in... (from a custom table)
for instance I'm trying myself and my phobia for API fiddling on TweetBlocker (adding Tweetblocker ratings to users) this needs eighter a field in users table OR custom table joined...
Did I make any sense?

[ginatrapani]

Yep, that makes sense... I think requiring plugins to create their own tables that join to existing ones would be safer.

[CVi]

I'm taking a crack at this one as I speak... I'm trying to to everything from scratch and then we can make the old code plug into the new one instead of making new code to fit the old one.

We should also make sure that any API we provide to te plugins does not get to spesiffic, we do want reusability right?

[ginatrapani]

Excellent... and yes.

[CVi]

http://github.com/cvi/thinktank/commit/9886f765a523dc71044f44fb5e5d76d91811d5e8

Have a look...

[ginatrapani]

Interesting, thanks cvi. I'll get this set up on my dev box and give it a test run today, and have more feedback later on tonight.

[CVi]

it is a quick'n dirty smack together so it barely works :p said that already, but the point here is to show an idea of how we could put it together (if there is a better saying for that, tell me :p)
Unfortunately it does not! solve the frontend plugin problem....

also the files in config_c is supposed to be compiled by install script (faster that way, database may be slowing it down)

It is just one simple plugin there... I'm not sure if i want to touch the crawlers directly (ill be happy to make APIs for them to use tho)

[ginatrapani]

Gina's take on this:
http://github.com/ginatrapani/thinktank/tree/pluggable

I'm going to work in this tree till I get the db changes done and do more testing, then I'll merge it into master.

[ginatrapani]

This is more of an ongoing project than a next action, so I'm putting the project on the TT roadmap wiki page, and I'll add discrete to-do's to the Issues list as they come up.