PluginStore for plugin specific bits of storage

Amended plugin interfaces so they work with the vk sample

app/assets/stylesheets/application.css.erb

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 //= require_tree ./application
 //= require ./foundation/helpers
 <%
+  # TODO this is very tricky, we want to add a dependency here on files that may not yet exist
+  #  otherwise in dev we are often stuck nuking the tmp/cache directory
   DiscoursePluginRegistry.stylesheets.each do |css|
     require_asset(css)
   end

app/models/plugin_store.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# API to wrap up plugin store rows
+class PluginStore
+  def self.get(plugin_name, key)
+    if row = PluginStoreRow.where(plugin_name: plugin_name, key: key).first
+      cast_value(row.type_name, row.value)
+    end
+  end
+
+  def self.set(plugin_name, key, value)
+    hash = {plugin_name: plugin_name, key: key}
+    row = PluginStoreRow.where(hash).first || row = PluginStoreRow.new(hash)
+
+    row.type_name = determine_type(value)
+    # nil are stored as nil
+    row.value =
+      if row.type_name == "JSON"
+        value.to_json
+      elsif value
+        value.to_s
+      end
+
+    row.save
+  end
+
+  protected
+
+
+  def self.determine_type(value)
+    value.is_a?(Hash) ? "JSON" : value.class.to_s
+  end
+
+  def self.cast_value(type, value)
+    case type
+    when "Fixnum" then value.to_i
+    when "TrueClass", "FalseClass" then value == "true"
+    when "JSON" then ActiveSupport::HashWithIndifferentAccess.new(::JSON.parse(value))
+    else value
+    end
+  end
+end

app/models/plugin_store_row.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+class PluginStoreRow < ActiveRecord::Base
+end

config/application.rb

@@ -119,9 +119,9 @@ module Discourse
     # attr_accessible.
     config.active_record.whitelist_attributes = false
 
+    require 'plugin'
+    require 'auth'
     unless Rails.env.test?
-      require 'plugin'
-      require_dependency 'auth'
       Discourse.activate_plugins!
     end
 

db/migrate/20130826011521_create_plugin_store_rows.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+class CreatePluginStoreRows < ActiveRecord::Migration
+  def change
+    create_table :plugin_store_rows do |table|
+      table.string :plugin_name, null: false
+      table.string :key, null: false
+      table.string :type_name, null: false
+      # not the most efficient implementation but will do for now
+      #  possibly in future we can add more tables so int and boolean etc values are
+      #  not stored in text
+      table.text :value
+    end
+
+    add_index :plugin_store_rows, [:plugin_name, :key], unique: true
+  end
+end

lib/plugin/auth_provider.rb

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 class Plugin::AuthProvider
-  attr_accessor :type, :glyph, :background_color, :name, :title,
+  attr_accessor :glyph, :background_color, :title,
                 :message, :frame_width, :frame_height, :authenticator
 
+  def name
+    authenticator.name
+  end
+
 end

lib/plugin/instance.rb

@@ -153,14 +153,12 @@ class Plugin::Instance
     end
   end
 
-  def auth_provider(type, opts)
+  def auth_provider(opts)
     @auth_providers ||= []
     provider = Plugin::AuthProvider.new
-    provider.type = type
-    [:name, :glyph, :background_color, :title, :message, :frame_width, :frame_height, :authenticator].each do |sym|
+    [:glyph, :background_color, :title, :message, :frame_width, :frame_height, :authenticator].each do |sym|
       provider.send "#{sym}=", opts.delete(sym)
     end
-    provider.name ||= type.to_s
     @auth_providers << provider
   end
 

spec/components/plugin/instance_spec.rb

@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ describe Plugin::Instance do
 
       plugin.auth_providers.count.should == 1
       auth_provider = plugin.auth_providers[0]
-      auth_provider.options.should == {:identifier => 'https://zappa.com'}
       auth_provider.type.should == :open_id
 
       # calls ensure_assets! make sure they are there

spec/models/plugin_store_spec.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+require "spec_helper"
+require_dependency "plugin_store"
+
+describe PluginStore do
+  def set(k,v)
+    PluginStore.set("my_plugin", k, v)
+  end
+
+  def get(k)
+    PluginStore.get("my_plugin", k)
+  end
+
+  it "sets strings correctly" do
+    set("hello", "world")
+    expect(get("hello")).to eq("world")
+
+    set("hello", "world1")
+    expect(get("hello")).to eq("world1")
+  end
+
+  it "sets fixnums correctly" do
+    set("hello", 1)
+    expect(get("hello")).to eq(1)
+  end
+
+  it "sets bools correctly" do
+    set("hello", true)
+    expect(get("hello")).to eq(true)
+
+    set("hello", false)
+    expect(get("hello")).to eq(false)
+
+    set("hello", nil)
+    expect(get("hello")).to eq(nil)
+  end
+
+
+  it "handles hashes correctly" do
+
+    val = {"hi" => "there", "1" => 1}
+    set("hello", val)
+    result = get("hello")
+
+    expect(result).to eq(val)
+
+    # ensure indiff access holds
+    expect(result[:hi]).to eq("there")
+  end
+end