[ckan-dev] plugins: inherit=???

Wed May 15 14:07:46 UTC 2013

Hi

Sounds inherently good to me.

David

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Toby Dacre <toby.okfn at gmail.com> wrote:

> when creating plugins
>
> class MyPlugin(p.SingletonPlugin):
>
>     p.implements(p.ISomeInterface)
>
>
> generally people don't add inherit=True which causes problems when
> expanding interfaces.  Currently I'm looking at expanding IActions but
> doing this then breaks lots of extensions.
>
> I'm thinking of patching ckan so that unless we specify inherit=False
> we will inherit.  I can't see where we would not want to inherit but
> it would allow the option if explicitly requested.  Otherwise we just
> keep breaking extensions for no good reason.
>
> Is this a bad plan?  Am I inherently evil?
>
>
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