Addons

Addons are integrations that can be installed or uninstalled against a Guillotina container. Guillotina applications can potentially provide many addons. If you have not read the section on applications, please read that before you come here.

The only way to provide add-ons is to first implement a Guillotina application.

Creating an Addon

Create an addon installer class in an install.py file in your Guillotina application:

from guillotina.addons import Addon
from guillotina import configure

@configure.addon(
    name="myaddon",
    title="My addon",
    dependencies=['cms'])
class MyAddon(Addon):

    @classmethod
    def install(cls, container, request):
        # install code
        pass

    @classmethod
    def uninstall(cls, container, request):
        # uninstall code
        pass

Note

Scanning

If your service modules are not imported at run-time, you may need to provide an additional scan call to get your services noticed by guillotina.

In your application __init__.py file, you can simply provide a scan call like

from guillotina import configure
def includeme(root):
    configure.scan('my.package')

Layers

A Layer is a marker you install with your addon, this allows your application to lookup views and adapters (override core functionality) only for the container you installed the add-on.

from guillotina.addons import Addon
from guillotina import configure
from guillotina.interfaces import ILayers

LAYER = 'guillotina_myaddon.interfaces.ILayer'

@configure.addon(
    name="myaddon",
    title="My addon")
class MyAddon(Addon):

    @classmethod
    def install(cls, container, request):
        registry = task_vars.registry.get()
        registry.for_interface(ILayers).active_layers |= {
            LAYER
        }

    @classmethod
    def uninstall(cls, container, request):
        registry = task_vars.registry.get()
        registry.for_interface(ILayers).active_layers -= {
            LAYER
        }

Installing an Addon into a container

Addons can be installed into a container using @addons endpoint by providing addon name as id For example:

http

POST /db/container/@addons HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
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Content-Type: application/json
Host: localhost:8080

{
    "id": "myaddon"
}

curl

curl -i -X POST http://localhost:8080/db/container/@addons -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-raw '{"id": "myaddon"}' --user root:root

wget

wget -S -O- http://localhost:8080/db/container/@addons --header='Accept: application/json' --header='Content-Type: application/json' --post-data='{"id": "myaddon"}' --auth-no-challenge --user=root --password=root

httpie

echo '{
  "id": "myaddon"
}' | http POST http://localhost:8080/db/container/@addons Accept:application/json Content-Type:application/json -a root:root

python-requests

requests.post('http://localhost:8080/db/container/@addons', headers={'Accept': 'application/json', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'}, json={'id': 'myaddon'}, auth=('root', 'root'))

response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "available": [
        {
            "id": "myaddon",
            "title": "Guillotina DB Users"
        },
        {
            "id": "application_name",
            "title": "Your application title"
        }
    ],
    "installed": [
        "dbusers",
        "application_name"
    ]
}