Plugins support (Beta) - Thoughts

[sebastienvermeille]

I will keep here a list of the remarks regarding current plugin support (v1) which is in Beta (massive change will still come :) )

To be addressed:

• Two plugins can define the same configuration parameter (name clashing i.e: PLUGIN_PASSWORD)
• What if a plugin want to get configured via a file instead of ENV variables ?
• What about plugins that want to reuse configurations of other plugins ?
• Plugins download should ideally check for MD5 signature if present (maven central provide it by example)
• Shouldn't the mqtt part of rika2mqtt be a plugin after all ? (to think)
• What about plugins that want to send commands to the stove (currently they are only "informed" about states
• What about other convenient plugin interfaces onStoveStopped, onStovePelletEmpty, onStoveError -> it exists here: 09b10a8#diff-8d83bdd2c118f6ce4b8175ab6c6cfd292549d952ec39527db39717d27d98b649R40

This list will grow after time and should let us reach some mature enough v1 api in a near future.