summercms/modules/kiosk/README.md

kiosk

Plugin manifests and the plugin registry contract: generates and checks each plugin's plugin.yaml from its own sources.

import "git.golem15.com/golem15/summercms/modules/kiosk"

Name: A beach kiosk where every plugin on the shelf carries its label; the label is printed from what is in the box, never written by hand.

Overview

A plugin describes itself in plugin.yaml, committed next to its plugin.go. The file is generated: summer plugin:manifest runs kiosk.Write, which reads the plugin's sources and never runs its code. The ID and the required plugins come from what ID() and Requires() in plugin.go return, the module path and the version minimums from go.mod, the package import path from the directory, and the name and description from the README's H1 and the paragraph after it (the standard README structure). The registry on summercms.io reads the same file from every tagged release, and summer build bakes its name and description into the application.

WinterCMS keeps this data in a plugin's Plugin.php pluginDetails() and in composer.json; here it is derived once, so the copy in the repository cannot drift from the code.

Features

• One plugin.yaml per plugin package directory, so a repository with a nested plugin carries two files.
• kiosk.ReadIdentity reads ID() and Requires() statically with go/parser: a string literal, a constant of the same package, of another package of the module, or of a package in a module go.mod requires. It never builds or runs plugin code, and summer plugin:add reads plugin IDs with it too.
• A schema version (kiosk.SchemaVersion) and a fixed header line (kiosk.Header); a manifest with a newer schema is refused with a hint to update summer.
• Go-style minimums: framework is the go.mod require of kiosk.FrameworkModule, and each required plugin gets the version its module is required at. A requirement at v0.0.0 is an error (not a released version); a pseudo-version is accepted with a warning.
• Name and description overrides (--name, --description) stored in an overrides: block that regeneration keeps.
• kiosk.Check regenerates in memory and returns a kiosk.StaleError when the committed file is missing or differs, which summer plugin:manifest --check turns into exit status 1, and kiosk.CheckT turns into a failing test in the plugin's own go test.

Usage

path, warnings, err := kiosk.Write(ctx, "plugins/acme/blog", kiosk.DeriveOptions{})
if err != nil {
	return err
}
for _, w := range warnings {
	log.Println(w)
}
fmt.Println("wrote", path)

if err := kiosk.Check(ctx, "plugins/acme/blog"); err != nil {
	var stale *kiosk.StaleError
	if errors.As(err, &stale) {
		fmt.Printf("expected:\n%s", stale.Want)
	}
	return err
}

A plugin repository keeps its manifest current with one test:

func TestPluginManifest(t *testing.T) {
	kiosk.CheckT(t, ".")
}

API reference

Identifier	Description
kiosk.FileName	The manifest file name, plugin.yaml.
kiosk.SchemaVersion	The newest schema this package reads, and the one it writes.
kiosk.FrameworkModule	The framework module path; its go.mod require is the plugin's framework minimum.
kiosk.Header	The comment line every generated plugin.yaml starts with.
kiosk.Manifest	One plugin.yaml: Schema, ID, Module, Package, Name, Description, Framework, Requires, Overrides, written in that order.
kiosk.Requires	Required plugin ID to minimum version; marshals sorted by ID. An empty minimum means the plugin ships in the same module or its module is not a go.mod require.
kiosk.Requires.MarshalYAML	Emits the map as a mapping sorted by ID.
kiosk.Overrides	The persisted --name and --description values.
kiosk.Marshal	The plugin.yaml bytes: the header line, then the fields.
kiosk.Parse	Reads plugin.yaml bytes; unknown fields are ignored, a newer schema is an error.
kiosk.DeriveOptions	Override changes for kiosk.Derive: nil keeps the persisted value, a pointer to "" clears it.
kiosk.Derive	Builds the manifest of a plugin directory from its sources and returns it with warnings.
kiosk.Generate	kiosk.Derive plus kiosk.Marshal: the bytes kiosk.Write would write.
kiosk.Write	Generates and writes <dir>/plugin.yaml and returns its path.
kiosk.Check	Returns a kiosk.StaleError when <dir>/plugin.yaml is missing or differs from a fresh generation.
kiosk.StaleError.Error	Names the path, and for a stale file the first differing line.
kiosk.TB	The part of testing.TB that kiosk.CheckT calls (Helper, Fatalf); kiosk does not import testing.
kiosk.CheckT	Fails the test with the kiosk.Check error and the command to rerun when the manifest is missing or stale.
kiosk.Validate	Checks a manifest: schema, ID and required IDs, module and package paths (no leading -), name, description, and vX.Y.Z or pseudo-version minimums. kiosk.Parse and kiosk.Generate call it.
kiosk.Identity	The plugin ID and the required plugin IDs.
kiosk.ReadIdentity	Reads what ID() and Requires() return from the sources of a directory, resolving constants across packages and modules without running code. Any other expression is an error naming the method.
kiosk.StaleError	Path, Missing, and the generated (Want) and committed (Got) bytes; its message names the first differing line.

CLI commands

Command	Purpose
summer plugin:manifest [dir]	Writes plugin.yaml for the plugin in dir (default: the current directory). --pretend prints it instead, --check fails when the committed file is missing or stale, --name and --description set or (with an empty value) clear the overrides.

Dependencies

• SummerCMS modules: none.
• Third-party: github.com/goccy/go-yaml (manifest YAML), github.com/yuin/goldmark (README headings and paragraphs).
• Standard library: bytes, context, encoding/json, errors, fmt, go/ast, go/parser, go/token, go/types (expression printing only), os, os/exec, path/filepath, regexp, slices, sort, strconv, strings.
• Tools: the go command (go mod edit -json, go list -m -json, and go mod download -json for a required module not in the module cache), run without a shell and with workspaces off.

Testing

go test ./modules/kiosk/...

TestManifestSmoke copies the fixture plugins in testdata/ to a temporary directory and generates, checks and edits their manifests: a literal-ID plugin, a plugin whose identity is spread over constants of three packages and two modules, a nested plugin, the error cases, overrides, kiosk.CheckT and kiosk.Validate. Every fixture module replaces the framework with the stub in testdata/framework, so the tests run the local go command but need no network and no database.