After some conversation, we've came up with some ideas on how to automate create_plugin_registries to ensure the plugin registries are in a correct state whenever GeoIPS is ran.
To start, we'll need to attach a pre-build script to plugin_package installation process, that generates a text file (or other suitable file type) which includes the installation time of that certain package. If this installation time is newer than the modification time of any plugin package's registered_plugins.json (assuming one exists), then run / rerun create_plugin_registries to ensure GeoIPS is in a correct / valid state.
I think it'd probably be a good idea to attach this functionality to the top level __init__.py file of all registered GeoIPS plugin packages. It'd be optimal to have this attached to non-registered plugin packages' top level __init__.py files, so maybe it'd be a good idea to discuss whether or not we want to add this to Template Basic Plugin in the future.
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Description
After some conversation, we've came up with some ideas on how to automate
create_plugin_registriesto ensure the plugin registries are in a correct state whenever GeoIPS is ran.To start, we'll need to attach a pre-build script to plugin_package installation process, that generates a text file (or other suitable file type) which includes the installation time of that certain package. If this installation time is newer than the modification time of any plugin package's registered_plugins.json (assuming one exists), then run / rerun
create_plugin_registriesto ensure GeoIPS is in a correct / valid state.I think it'd probably be a good idea to attach this functionality to the top level
__init__.pyfile of all registered GeoIPS plugin packages. It'd be optimal to have this attached to non-registered plugin packages' top level__init__.pyfiles, so maybe it'd be a good idea to discuss whether or not we want to add this to Template Basic Plugin in the future.Background and Motivation
This issue comes from the last bullet in this issue https://github.com/NRLMMD-GEOIPS/geoips/issues/541.
Code to demonstrate issue
geoips.create_plugin_regstriesandgeoips.plugin_registry.Checklist for Completion
create_plugin_registries