Unable to update authn configuration during plugin load

[jcosentino11]

What happened?

Hello, I'm developing an emqx plugin which performs emqx configuration updates, among other things. I noticed that if I try to execute emqx_conf:update_conf for the authentication key, within the plugin's start function, the update fails.

The issue was due to authn providers not being registered before the aforementioned update, because emqx_authn wasn't loaded at this point.

I was able to workaround the issue by adding emqx_authn as an application dependency in emqx_plugins.app.src.

Wanted to report this issue, in case there may be similar situations; maybe it would make sense to load plugins after most other emqx apps have loaded

What did you expect to happen?

See above

How can we reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible)?

No response

Anything else we need to know?

No response

EMQX version

5.1.1

OS version

windows

Log files

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@jcosentino11 could you test it with 5.1.2?
In #11309 we fixed a few issues with application load and start order.

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