Monday, March 18, 2019

In my yesterday’s changes I didn’t like the way Lino Così was expecting a hoster to specify which VAT declaration plugin to install. My quick solution yesterday asked something like this in your local settings.py file:

def get_installed_plugins(self):
    yield super(Site, self).get_installed_plugins()
    yield 'lino_xl.lib.eevat'

def setup_plugins(self):
    super(Site, self).setup_plugins()
    self.plugins.countries.configure(hide_region=False)
    self.plugins.accounting.configure(use_pcmn=True)
    self.plugins.countries.configure(country_code='EE')

Now it says:

def get_plugin_configs(self):
    yield super(Site, self).get_plugin_configs()
    yield ('vat', 'declaration_plugins', 'lino_xl.lib.eevat')
    yield ('countries', 'hide_region', False)
    yield ('countries', 'country_code', 'EE')
    yield ('ledger', 'use_pcmn', True)

Until now it wasn’t easy to make it that easy because lino.core.site.Site.setup_plugins() is being called long after lino.core.site.Site.get_installed_plugins(). IOW it was not easy to say to one plugin (vat) that it should load (or not) some other plugin depending on the value of a configuration setting.

I had to improve the Lino API by adding two new methods lino.core.site.Site.get_plugin_configs() and lino.core.plugin.Plugin.get_required_plugins().

TODO: Use configparser and allow for local config files to specify plugin settings.