Intro to Plugin Oriented Programming

Contents:

• POP, What it Seeks to Solve
  • A Brief History
  • The World of Today
  • The Problems of Today
  • Plugin Oriented Programming
  • How Does Plugin Oriented Programming Do This?
• Origin of POP
  • Salt’s Plugin System and Plugin Oriented Programming
  • Adventures in Plugins
  • Emergence of Plugin Oriented Programming
• Define “Pluggable”
  • Collections of Plugins - Subsystems
  • The Hub and the Namespace
  • App Merging
• Getting Started
  • Install and Run
  • Moving Forward
• The Hub
  • Getting To Know the Hub
  • The First Subsystem - pop
• Plugin Subsystems - Subs
  • Subs Contain Plugins
  • Adding Subs to a hub
  • Recursive Sub Loading
  • Plugin Loading
  • The init System
  • The __init__ Function
  • Subs Express Patterns
• Patterns
  • Patterns Are Extensible
  • Collection Pattern
  • Spine Pattern
  • Beacon Pattern
  • Flow Pattern
  • Router Pattern
  • Just Examples
  • Plugins Allow for App Merging!
• App Merging - Making Apps Pluggable
  • Horizontal App Merging
  • Vertical App Merging
  • App Merging is Simple
  • Next Up - Plugins
• Plugins
  • Functions and the Hub
  • Private Functions
  • Virtual Names
  • Func Alias
  • The Initializer Function
  • Data on the hub
• Instances
  • Loosely Coupled Design
  • Reused Functions and Data on the Hub
• Plugin Oriented Configuration
  • Configuration Merging
  • Configuration Priority
  • The conf.py Dictionaries
  • CONFIG Dictionary
  • CLI_CONFIG
  • Conclusion
• Enforcing Patterns and Interfaces - Contracts
  • Contract Structure
  • Contract Signature Enforcement
  • Contract Function Wrappers
• Build and Deploy
  • Tiamat
  • Using Tiamat
  • Using the Build Addon
• Using Plugin Oriented Programming

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page