[rt-devel] plugins and _Vendor files

[Ruslan Zakirov]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Bradley Bell <bradleyb at uw.edu> wrote:

> Unless I'm mistaken, no RT class will load more than one Vendor
> overlay, so if I have two plugins installed, and each provide a Vendor
> file, only one will get loaded.
>
> Am I correct in surmising that the overlay mechanism was never really
> meant to be used by plugins in this way?


Yes and no. In 3.6 nad older plugins were installed in local/ so you
couldn't have two plugins with the same _Local.pm or _Vendor.pm file. We
were using such files in plugins, but quickly it proved to be wrong.



> It seems most plugins only
> need to make a couple of changes to RT classes and just do it right in
> the main plugin .pm. Are there any other recommended methods?
>

see lib/RT/IR.pm in RTIR extension. We basicly wrap methods from
extensions' primary file.


For Asset Tracker, which has several _Vendor files, I'm thinking of
> perhaps renaming them *_ATOverlay.pm and then requiring those from
> AssetTracker.pm.
>
> Thanks,
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Best regards, Ruslan.
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