Developing custom plugin

[Adam-it]

Hi folks 👋,

Checking the way how to develop a plugin to the mgdp it would seem like it should inherit from BaseProxyPlugin from msgraph-developer-proxy-abstractions. Currently, the only way to do that is either to reference the project or directly the .dll.
Either way it would seem like developing the custom plugin needs to be done in the context of the mgdp solution which may not always be optimal.
I was thinking that the msgraph-developer-proxy-abstractions should be exposed as a NuGet so it might become a dependency of any project. What do you think?

Thank you for your awesome work 👍

[waldekmastykarz]

We absolutely should publish abstractions to NuGet to make it easier for others to build plugins. Thank you for bringing this up 👍

[waldekmastykarz]

To clarify: we'll do it as soon as we clear a few internal things first. For now, putting it on hold

[waldekmastykarz]

You could grab the DLL and reference it in your solution without shipping it to output. While not as convenient as having a NuGet, it would free you from having to work without our solution. That said, we're looking for ways to publish our assemblies.

[Adam-it]

You could grab the DLL and reference it in your solution without shipping it to output. While not as convenient as having a NuGet, it would free you from having to work without our solution. That said, we're looking for ways to publish our assemblies.

Thanks for the update. actually this is the approach we already took 🙂. Currently on hold waiting for better times

[waldekmastykarz]

Out of curiosity, what kind of custom plugins have you been building? Something that we could consider adding into the product for the benefit of others?

[Adam-it]

sure. I already build it but for one of the early versions of the dev proxy (at that time it was still MS dev proxy 😉) as a POC. Not so long after we confirmed internally the usability of this product and are waiting for version 1.0 😜.
but anyway, the aim of this plugin is/was to extend the mock json allowing to define conditions for the same request. So each request could have different response mocked based on some conditions met. In my case it was based on parameters passed in the body of the request.
You may check in 'in action' here https://github.com/Adam-it/msgraph-developer-proxy-plugin-conditional-mocks?tab=readme-ov-file. I open sourced it as soon as it was done and didn't have time/budget to change it ever since 😉.

Also I just remembered that sometime ago I added this as a suggestion to the product here #115 but I think at that time we agreed it was out of scope for this tool 😉. Thats why I made it as a plugin

in the readmy I added some example screenshots how it worked back then. Let me know if you need any more info on that. Cheers 😉

[waldekmastykarz]

Cool idea! I recall that. Let's keep it separate for now, but should it ever come up, I know who to ping 😄

[Adam-it]

Sure thing

[waldekmastykarz]

Since we've got documentation on building custom plugins and we publish abstractions as a release artifact, let's close this issue for now.