MySQL Shell 8.0
You can create a plugin group by placing the folders for multiple
MySQL Shell plugins in a containing folder under the
plugins folder. A plugin group can contain a
mix of plugins defined using JavaScript and plugins defined using
Python. Plugin groups can be used to organize plugins that have
something in common, for example:
Plugins that provide reports on a particular theme.
Plugins that reuse the same common code.
Plugins that add functions to the same extension object.
If a subdirectory of the plugins folder does
not contain an initialization script (an
init.js or init.py
file), MySQL Shell treats it as a plugin group and searches its
subfolders for the initialization scripts for the plugins. The
containing folder can contain other files with code that is shared
by the plugins in the plugin group. As for a plugin's subfolder,
the containing folder is ignored if its name begins with a dot (.)
but otherwise the name is not important to MySQL Shell.
For example, a plugin group comprising all the functions provided
by the user-defined MySQL Shell global object
ext can be structured like this:
The folder
C:\Users\exampleuser\AppData\Roaming\MySQL\mysqlsh\plugins\ext
is the containing folder for the plugin group.
Common code for the plugins is stored in this folder at
C:\Users\exampleuser\AppData\Roaming\MySQL\mysqlsh\plugins\ext\common.py
The plugins in the plugin group are stored in subfolders of
the ext folder, each with an
init.py file, for example
C:\Users\exampleuser\AppData\Roaming\MySQL\mysqlsh\plugins\ext\helloWorld\init.py.
The plugins import the common code from
ext.common and use its functions.