Updated plugin utils. Enabled plugins to override urlpatterns.

CHANGELOG

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ Other:
   now.
 - Updated to Bootstrap 3.
 - Used SockJS for automatic update of AngularJS driven single page frontend.
+- Refactored plugin API.
 - Refactored start script and management commands.
 - Refactored tests.
 - Used Bower and gulp to manage third party JavaScript and Cascading Style

openslides/urls.py

@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 from django.conf.urls import include, patterns, url
 from django.views.generic import RedirectView
 
+from openslides.utils.plugins import get_all_plugin_urlpatterns
 from openslides.utils.rest_api import router
 
-urlpatterns = patterns(
+urlpatterns = get_all_plugin_urlpatterns()
+
+urlpatterns += patterns(
     '',
     url(r'^(?P<url>.*[^/])$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/%(url)s/', permanent=True)),
     url(r'^rest/', include(router.urls)),
@@ -12,6 +15,7 @@ urlpatterns = patterns(
     url(r'^motions/', include('openslides.motions.urls')),
     url(r'^users/', include('openslides.users.urls')),
 
-    # The urls.py for the core app has to be the last entry in the urls.py
+    # The urls.py of the core app has to be the last entry. It contains the
+    # main entry points for OpenSlides' browser clients.
     url(r'^', include('openslides.core.urls')),
 )

openslides/utils/plugins.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import os
 import pkgutil
 import sys
 
+from django.conf import settings
 from django.utils.importlib import import_module
 from pkg_resources import iter_entry_points
 
@@ -14,7 +15,9 @@ from openslides.utils.main import (
 plugins = {}
 
 
-def get_plugins_from_entry_points():
+# Methods to collect plugins.
+
+def collect_plugins_from_entry_points():
     """
     Collects all entry points in the group openslides_plugins from all
     distributions in the default working set and returns their module names as
@@ -23,10 +26,10 @@ def get_plugins_from_entry_points():
     return tuple(entry_point.module_name for entry_point in iter_entry_points('openslides_plugins'))
 
 
-def get_plugins_from_path(path):
+def collect_plugins_from_path(path):
     """
-    Collects all modules/packages in the given `path`
-    and returns a tuple of their names
+    Collects all modules/packages in the given `path` and returns a tuple
+    of their names.
     """
     return tuple(x[1] for x in pkgutil.iter_modules([path]))
 
@@ -35,16 +38,21 @@ def collect_plugins():
     """
     Collect all plugins that can be automatically discovered.
     """
-    plugins = get_plugins_from_entry_points()
-    # add all modules in plugins/ dir of portable automatically
+    # Collect plugins from entry points.
+    collected_plugins = collect_plugins_from_entry_points()
+
+    # Collect plugins in plugins/ directory of portable.
     if detect_openslides_type() == WINDOWS_PORTABLE_VERSION:
         plugins_path = os.path.join(
-            get_win32_portable_user_data_path(), "plugins")
+            get_win32_portable_user_data_path(), 'plugins')
         if plugins_path not in sys.path:
             sys.path.append(plugins_path)
-        plugins += get_plugins_from_path(plugins_path)
-    return plugins
+        collected_plugins += collect_plugins_from_path(plugins_path)
 
+    return collected_plugins
+
+
+# Methods to retrieve plugins and their metadata.
 
 def get_plugin(plugin):
     """
@@ -93,7 +101,7 @@ def get_plugin_description(plugin):
 
 def get_plugin_version(plugin):
     """
-    Returns the version string of a plugin. The plugin argument must be a#
+    Returns the version string of a plugin. The plugin argument must be a
     python dotted module path.
     """
     plugin = get_plugin(plugin)
@@ -107,17 +115,30 @@ def get_plugin_version(plugin):
     return version
 
 
-def get_urlpatterns(plugin):
+def get_plugin_urlpatterns(plugin):
     """
     Returns the urlpatterns object for a plugin. The plugin argument must be
     a python dotted module path.
     """
     plugin = get_plugin(plugin)
     try:
-        urlpatterns = plugin.urlpatterns
+        urlpatterns = plugin.get_urlpatterns()
     except AttributeError:
         try:
             urlpatterns = plugin.urls.urlpatterns
         except AttributeError:
             urlpatterns = None
     return urlpatterns
+
+
+def get_all_plugin_urlpatterns():
+    """
+    Helper function to return all urlpatterns of all plugins listed in
+    settings.INSTALLED_PLUGINS.
+    """
+    urlpatterns = []
+    for plugin in settings.INSTALLED_PLUGINS:
+        plugin_urlpatterns = get_plugin_urlpatterns(plugin)
+        if plugin_urlpatterns:
+            urlpatterns += plugin_urlpatterns
+    return urlpatterns