OpenCADStudio no longer bundles plugins — every add-on is an external
cdylib loaded from the plugins folder or installed via the marketplace.
- Remove the demo plugin and the in-tree ocs_example_plugin crate.
- Remove the inventory-based built-in registration path (PluginRegistration,
all_plugins, installed_manifests); registry now serves core ribbon tabs
plus loaded external plugins, and try_dispatch routes only to externals.
- Plugin Manager drops the 'compiled into this build' section; the
enable/disable toggle moves onto loaded external cards.
- Prune the now-dead HostSession/DocumentTab helpers and re-exports.
Part of the #100 extensibility epic (phase 2).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Move BuiltinPlugin into ocs_plugin_api (host feature) so out-of-tree
crates can implement it, and add export_plugin! to emit the two C
symbols a cdylib exposes: ocs_plugin_api_version (checked first, so an
ABI-incompatible build never runs) and ocs_plugin_register -> boxed
BuiltinPlugin. The host loads every compatible package from the plugins
folder at startup via libloading (desktop only), keeps the library
resident for the session, and merges its ribbon tab + command dispatch
into the same paths as built-ins (honouring enable/disable). The Plugin
Manager shows external packages with a Loaded / incompatible status.
Approach B: the plugin hands back a boxed trait object, assuming a
matching toolchain + ocs_plugin_api version (the version symbol enforces
the latter). crates/ocs_example_plugin is the reference cdylib.
Part of the #100 extensibility epic (phase 2).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Plugins targeted the host's concrete HostSession type. Add a HostApi
trait in ocs_plugin_api behind an optional `host` feature (the only thing
that pulls acadrust, so the core crate stays dependency-free). HostSession
implements it and BuiltinPlugin::dispatch now takes `&mut dyn HostApi`, so
an out-of-tree add-on compiles against the contract crate alone. Per-tab
plugin state is reached through object-safe plugin_state* helpers.
Completes the phase-1 host-surface extraction in the #100 epic.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Add-ons had no way to request a file picker — only the host's own Open
dialog. PluginFileDialog lets a plugin tool ask the host to open a native
picker; on selection the host dispatches "<command> <path>" back to the
plugin with original case preserved (bypassing the command-line
upper-casing that mangles case-sensitive paths on Linux/macOS). The demo
plugin gains an Import tool exercising it.
Part of the #100 extensibility epic (surfaced in #106).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Move the dependency-free, semver-versioned half of the plugin contract into a
standalone workspace crate `crates/ocs_plugin_api`:
- manifest types: PluginManifest, ApiVersion, API_VERSION
- ribbon vocabulary: CadModule trait + ToolDef/RibbonGroup/RibbonItem/IconKind/
ModuleEvent/StyleKey
The host re-exports them from `crate::plugin::manifest` and `crate::modules`, so
every existing call site is unchanged. The acadrust-typed runtime surface
(HostSession) stays in the host binary; lifting it behind a HostApi trait in the
same crate is the remaining phase-1b step.
Part of #100. Docs updated in docs/plugin-architecture.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
