Hi team, are we planning to add support for installing plugins locally using the automation API ? cc...

brash-spring-72791

11/04/2024, 6:17 PM

Hi team, are we planning to add support for installing plugins locally using the automation API ? cc @little-cartoon-10569

little-cartoon-10569

11/04/2024, 6:52 PM

I'm trying to imagine a use case. As I understand it, in order to run the automation-api program, you need to run

npm install

or the equivalent for your runtime. And that process installs the plugins. So by the time automation-api is running, the plugins are installed. Is this not what you're seeing? What is the problem you're looking to solve?

brash-spring-72791

11/04/2024, 6:55 PM

Actually it’s more of a dev workflow. I haven’t published the provider and will be making changes but when using automation API to create the stack using the resources managed by local provider, I have no option to load the plugin through the automation API itself.

little-cartoon-10569

11/04/2024, 7:23 PM

And you can't install it using the runtime's normal package installation functionality? Just from a local repository? Another option would be to update your "build-and-install-locally" script on the plugin side to include copying it to the local plugin directory if it exists.

little-cartoon-10569

11/04/2024, 7:23 PM

I'm afraid I know next to nothing about golang and its packages, but I presume something like that would be supported?

brash-spring-72791

11/06/2024, 6:18 AM

Thanks for this tenwit. I think the script to copy the plugin to plugin cache would work.

rough-ice-18151

12/20/2024, 6:17 PM

FWIW I'm having this same issue. Glad I found this discussion! I'll copy the plugin to my cache

brash-spring-72791

12/20/2024, 6:19 PM

I did the same and in the naming scheme it expects and it worked nicely. So confirming it works !!

rough-ice-18151

12/20/2024, 6:19 PM

did you copy a .lock file or anything?

brash-spring-72791

12/20/2024, 6:20 PM

Nope, I didn’t

brash-spring-72791

12/20/2024, 6:20 PM

It worked without it for me atleast

rough-ice-18151

12/20/2024, 6:21 PM

Thanks! will give it a shot

brash-spring-72791

12/20/2024, 6:21 PM

Cool, do revert if any issues and I’ll double check if I did anything different

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