API for third party code to manage mods and file replacements

[NotAdam]

Ideally other plugins can also register their own replacements if Penumbra exists, though this is likely dependant on the Dalamud rewrite where we should have a better think about how this could work, but ideally we can support the following scenarios:

• Replace a file with a globally lower priority than any user modpacks
  • for example, this would only replace a file if a user modpack didn't replace it
• Replace a file with a higher priority than modpacks

current plan

• [x] basic http api
• [x] retrieve mods and their files
• [ ] create new mods
• [ ] add files/delete files from a mod
• [ ] manage mod priorities
• [ ] manage conflicts
• [ ] delete mods
• [ ] export mods
• [ ] add non-mod related file replacements (eg, testing file edits from an external program such as vfxeditor/umbra)

[AncientAzem]

So I noticed the basic HTTP api is checked off in this list. Out of sheer curiosity what is the extend of that API?

[NotAdam]

literally nothing of use lol

[AncientAzem]

That's what I thought but was curious none the less 😅

[y2-ss]

While it's not specifically related to mod/file management, would supporting character redraws events (sending/receiving) be in the scope for the API?

[Ottermandias]

It's not part of the HTTP API (because I have no idea where Adam was going with that and thus there wasn't any progress made on that :D) but it is part of the extracted API I did for Glamourer, and part of the IPC-API in API4. So queuing redraws from another plugin would be possible from API4 on. Firing IPC events when redrawing would also be easily addable. What's your goal here?

[y2-ss]

I'm working on a plugin that changes customization and orientation values of Players for role-playing purposes, and some of these values changes, like position, rotation, and scale, are lost when Penumbra redraws characters. Right now my plugin only applies these by just a manual command, but being able to apply them after a Penumbra redraw would be a goal.

[Ottermandias]

Regarding applying customization values, check out Glamourer on my repos. I can probably add a IPC listener to the plugin that gets fired when a redraw is started or finalized. Probably easiest to add what you want if you ping me in discord. Though I'm mostly unavailable the next few days.

[AncientAzem]

Hey there! If this isn't something that someone is actively working on I would love to start working on it bit by bit. I've spent some time poking around the codebase and it's something I am willing to take a stab at.

Edit: This probably isn't much but I decided to poke around a bit for fun this afternoon and expanded the existing HTTP API with some more functionality. It's all over in https://github.com/DevJinnial/Penumbra/tree/web-api-expansion if anyone wanted to take a look. Didn't want to submit a PR yet since I am still working on it but thought I would update this message with it.