Meta plugins existed only for a short time, in order to enable breaking
up x-pack into multiple plugins. However, now that x-pack is no longer
installed as a plugin, the need for them has disappeared. This commit
removes the meta plugins infrastructure.
This directory was removed from plugins in #28589, but docs still
referenced it. This commit cleans up the plugin author docs to no longer
refer to it.
This pull request replaces the jvm-example plugin (from the jvm/site plugins era) by two new plugins: a custom-settings that shows how to register and use custom settings (including secured settings) in a plugin, and rest-handler plugin that shows how to register a rest handler.
The two plugins now reside in the plugins/examples project. They can serve as sample plugins for users, a special attention has been put on documentation. The packaging tests have been adapted to use the custom-settings plugin.
This commit adds the ability to package multiple plugins in a single zip.
The zip file for a meta plugin must contains the following structure:
|____elasticsearch/
| |____ <plugin1> <-- The plugin files for plugin1 (the content of the elastisearch directory)
| |____ <plugin2> <-- The plugin files for plugin2
| |____ meta-plugin-descriptor.properties <-- example contents below
The meta plugin properties descriptor is mandatory and must contain the following properties:
description: simple summary of the meta plugin.
name: the meta plugin name
The installation process installs each plugin in a sub-folder inside the meta plugin directory.
The example above would create the following structure in the plugins directory:
|_____ plugins
| |____ <name_of_the_meta_plugin>
| | |____ meta-plugin-descriptor.properties
| | |____ <plugin1>
| | |____ <plugin2>
If the sub plugins contain a config or a bin directory, they are copied in a sub folder inside the meta plugin config/bin directory.
|_____ config
| |____ <name_of_the_meta_plugin>
| | |____ <plugin1>
| | |____ <plugin2>
|_____ bin
| |____ <name_of_the_meta_plugin>
| | |____ <plugin1>
| | |____ <plugin2>
The sub-plugins are loaded at startup like normal plugins with the same restrictions; they have a separate class loader and a sub-plugin
cannot have the same name than another plugin (or a sub-plugin inside another meta plugin).
It is also not possible to remove a sub-plugin inside a meta plugin, only full removal of the meta plugin is allowed.
Closes#27316
They needed to be updated now that Painless is the default and
the non-sandboxed scripting languages are going away or gone.
I dropped the entire section about customizing the classloader
whitelists. In master this barely does anything (exposes more
things to expressions).
Site plugins used to be used for things like kibana and marvel, but
there is no longer a need since kibana (and marvel as a kibana plugin)
uses node.js. This change removes site plugins, as well as the flag for
jvm plugins. Now all plugins are jvm plugins.
* Add ability for plugins to declare additional permissions with a custom plugin-security.policy file and corresponding AccessController logic. See the plugin author's guide for more information.
* Add warning messages to users for extra plugin permissions in bin/plugin.
* When bin/plugin is run interactively (stdin is a controlling terminal and -b/--batch not supplied), require user confirmation.
* Improve unit test and IDE support for plugins with additional permissions by exposing plugin's metadata as a maven test resource.
Closes#14108
Squashed commit of the following:
commit cf8ace65a7397aaccd356bf55f95d6fbb8bb571c
Author: Robert Muir <rmuir@apache.org>
Date: Wed Oct 14 13:36:05 2015 -0400
fix new unit test from master merge
commit 9be3c5aa38f2d9ae50f3d54924a30ad9cddeeb65
Merge: 2f168b8 7368231
Author: Robert Muir <rmuir@apache.org>
Date: Wed Oct 14 12:58:31 2015 -0400
Merge branch 'master' into off_my_back
commit 2f168b8038e32672f01ad0279fb5db77ba902ae8
Author: Robert Muir <rmuir@apache.org>
Date: Wed Oct 14 12:56:04 2015 -0400
improve plugin author documentation
commit 6e6c2bfda68a418d92733ac22a58eec35508b2d0
Author: Robert Muir <rmuir@apache.org>
Date: Wed Oct 14 12:52:14 2015 -0400
move security confirmation after 'plugin already installed' check, to prevent user from answering unnecessary questions.
commit 08233a2972554afef2a6a7521990283102e20d92
Author: Robert Muir <rmuir@apache.org>
Date: Wed Oct 14 05:36:42 2015 -0400
Add documentation and pluginmanager support
commit 05dad86c51488ba43ccbd749f0164f3fbd3aee62
Author: Robert Muir <rmuir@apache.org>
Date: Wed Oct 14 02:22:24 2015 -0400
Decentralize plugin permissions (modulo docs and pluginmanager work)
The setting `plugin.types` is currently used to load plugins from the
classpath. This is necessary in tests, as well as the transport client.
This change removes the setting, and replaces it with the ability to
directly add plugins when building a transport client, as well as
infrastructure in the integration tests to specify which plugin classes
should be loaded on each node.
* Centralised plugin docs in docs/plugins/
* Moved integrations into same docs
* Moved community clients into the clients section of the docs
* Removed docs/community
Closes#11734Closes#11724Closes#11636Closes#11635Closes#11632Closes#11630Closes#12046Closes#12438Closes#12579
Ryan Ernst
Clinton Gormley
Ivan Brusic
Tanguy Leroux
Jim Ferenczi
Jim Ferenczi
Christoph Büscher
Nik Everett
Robert Muir
David Pilato