RHQ plug-in runs-inside + new subcategories

Larry O'Leary loleary at redhat.com
Fri Oct 24 22:58:09 UTC 2014


Hello 

The first part for what I need is pretty simple. To be able to create my
plug-in which runs-inside an existing one. For that I can use the
runs-inside element. 

My plug-in is exposing many new services for which I would like to be
organized under a single subcategory under the parent. Based on the work
that was done in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796480 this
is also possible. However, that assumes the subcategory was already
defined in the parent plug-in.

Is it possible to organize my services under a new subcategory under the
parent without modifying the parent plug-in? For example:

The parent plug-in has its own descriptor and can not be modified:
<plugin parent>
  <server name="a">
    <subcategories>
      <subcategory name="foo"/>
    </subcategories>
  </server>
</plugin>


My custom child plug-in extends the parent plug-in's resource type by
adding new services:

<plugin child>
  <service name="a-child" subCategory="bar">
      <runs-inside>
         <parent-resource-type name="a" plugin="parent">
           <subcategories>
             <subcategory name="bar" />
           <subcategories>
      </runs-inside>
  </server>
</plugin>


Basically I need the ability to define new subcategories for the parent
plug-in type a from within my custom child plug-in. This will then allow
be to map my new service(s) a-child to the subcategory bar.

Thanks,
-- 
Larry O'Leary
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