Advice on referencing local plugins & their paths

[taylortom]

Context: I'm adding the update API, and need to be able to copy locally installed plugins to and from a temp location during the update

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Issue 1

UPDATE: I'm able to reference local plugins using Project.getInstallTargets, let me know if this is not the way

I'm having trouble retrieving a list of locally installed plugins (i.e. those not managed by bower). It looks like I should be able to do this using a combination of Project and Plugin, i.e. something like:

const project = new Project({ cwd })
const localPlugins = (await project.getInstalledPlugins()).filter(p => p.isLocalSource)

However, I'm currently not getting any useful values back from isLocalSource, isLocalSourceZip & sourcePath, so I'm left having to figure this all out manually.

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Issue 2

My adapt.json looks a bit strange, with an unexpected(?) mixture of paths & versions. See excerpt below:

{
  // all bower managed plugins look like this (as expected)
  "adapt-contrib-vanilla": "*",
  // some local plugins have a version
  "adapt-search": "3.0.0", 
  // other local plugins have a path (the original upload path which doesn't exist)
  "adapt-youtube": "FRAMEWORK_IMPORT_PATH/src/components/adapt-youtube",
  "adapt-videoBackground": "PLUGIN_UPLOAD_PATH"
}

I would expect the value for local plugins to be their current dir (in the current situation the paths reference a temp upload dir which no longer exists) - this may be a misunderstanding on my part (I perhaps need to move the uploaded files to somewhere more permanent prior to handing off the rest of the installation to the CLI?)

[taylortom]

Has been discussed