Plugins

Plugins extend the functionality of Cloudomation Engine.

Use Cases

Use a plugin to

• extend the Cloudomaton User Interface with action buttons which create executions when clicked.

Concept

Plugin actions are restricted to a resource type. For each plugin action an action button will appear when viewing resources of the specified type. Clicking on a plugin action button will start an execution of the referenced flow and pass the ID of the resource in the input_value.

tip

We recomment to distribute plugins as part of a design self-contained project. The project should contain all resources (flows, settings, actions, etc.) which are needed for its purpose. If a plugin has dependencies, it should always check if they exist and provide meaningful errors when they are missing.

See Projects for more information about projects.

Configuration

Please see the table below for the different plugin fields and their meanings:

Field	Description
Enabled	If unset, Engine will not create action buttons of the plugin actions.

Please see the table below for the different plugin_action fields and their meanings:

Field	Description
Parent action	When set, this action will be placed in a dropdown menu below the parent action.
Resource type	an Engine resource type where the action should create a button.
Color	The color of the button. Currently not used.
Icon	An icon to display on the button.
Enabled	If unset, the action does not create a button.
Flow	The flow which should be started when the button is clicked.
Type	One of LIST or RECORD. See Action types.
Record filter	An additional filter to limit the rows for which the action button is created. See Record filter.

Action Types

• LIST

  The action button is also shown in list views. When clicked the flow is started once and the execution gets all record IDs passed in the input_value.

• RECORD

  The action button is shown in the record header. When clicked the flow is started once for each record and each execution gets one record ID passed in the input_value.

Record filter

Additional filters can be specified in key-value pairs.

example

When using the record filter connector_type: SSH the action button will only appear for connectors of type "SSH"

Action Handler Flow

The flow which is registered in a plugin action will be used to create an execution when the action button is pressed.

example

Flow to handle a "LIST" plugin action

import flow_api

def handler(system: flow_api.System, this: flow_api.Execution, inputs: dict):
    # Type "LIST" actions pass "ids"
    ids = inputs['ids']

    # we iterate over the list of IDs
    for id_ in ids:
        # read the type of the resource and the name
        this.log(system.resource(id, by='id').get('resource_type', 'name'))

    return this.success('all done')

example

Flow to handle a "RECORD" plugin action

import flow_api

def handler(system: flow_api.System, this: flow_api.Execution, inputs: dict):
    inputs = this.get('input_value')

    # Type "RECORD" actions pass "id"
    id_ = inputs['id']

    this.log(f'I was called with the ID {id_}')

    return this.success('all done')

Example

We provide an example plugin as part of the Connection Analysis & Test bundle.

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Connection Analysis & Test bundle