Plugin Development

@pichalite @PitaJ Thanks guys, that worked.

@pitaj thank you,it works well.

@julian There didn't appear to be a way of managing this number plus I assumed there are already lots of things node already does to modify this number. I wanted completely control of it, including the ability to "spend" it on things down the road.

@pitaj said in Cannot access admin after installing plugin: @panagiotis try running ./nodebb build again Hi @pitaj. Thanks it worked!

Also, just FYI, the docs you used are the old docs, the new ones are at docs.nodebb.org You can open an issue at github.com/nodebb/docs if you wish for a change to be made

fantastic! my codebase is much happier now

[root@bbs nodebb_develop]# tail -n 8 /etc/profile export OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="MTBINQ9JTjyY5m" export OSS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="Ru87oDgLzgBbBdoCqb0KbGHNRX6ao" export OSS_UPLOADS_HOST="http://nodebbs.oss-cn-shanghai.aliyuncs.com" export OSS_UPLOADS_BUCKET="nodebbs" export OSS_DEFAULT_REGION="oss-cn-shanghai" export OSS_UPLOADS_PATH="/assets"

Starting with 1.6.0 you can use plugins.fireHook('filter:meta.getMetaTags', { req: req, data: data, defaultTags: defaultTags }, next); If you want to do it on 1.5.2 you can try the below using the the hook filter:topic.build. myPluign.onTopicBuild = function (hookData, callback) { hookData.res.locals.metaTags.push({ property: 'tags', content: 'abc, def' }); callback(null, hookData); };

@baris Could you explain how I can do to send text as if it were the editor so that the composer does not throw error that it enters more than 0 characters?

@julian Cool, and... How can we do what you suggest to send text if we remove the textfield in the composer template?

There are a few methodology issue I have here right now. The biggest being that the upload hook fires before a post is posted. This means files that aren't uploaded ( edited out after uploading ) with the post get stored. I need to sort out how to move this to the post hook and process that instead. Learning curve and all. For the moment, this works well enough for the other work I need so I'll be more focused that way for a bit, but I expect to come back to this for enhancement shortly. If you have requests/feature ideas Add it to the issue tracker on bitbucket. https://bitbucket.org/abquintic/nodebb-plugin-fileownership/issues?status=new&status=open

Yep, ended up using posts.isMain function.

I'm working on a plugin that filters out a specific file type and relocates them to a different folder. Everything works as I want except for two issues that I expect are approximately the same solution. Since uploadFile fires on all files, I need to do an early filter against the extension/mimetype and exit out on a non-match. When I do so, I am firing the callback with (null, data ) where data is the past object for the filter then returning. The resulting link that shows up in the message has a bad URL. Similarly, when it passes the extension check, it throws an exception due to the uploaded temp file being moved by my plugin. I assume in both cases this is an issue with what need to get sent back when the filter wraps up its business for the rest of the "upload" flow. Looking at uploads.js hasn't helped me parse it out. Looking at the imgur plugin has me more confused than understanding. Anyone know what needs to occur here?

@Giggiux said in Commission: Update Plugin to 1.5 and Tweak: @Michael-Pfaff I have no clue on how the plugin works, but from the error stack-trace you're trying to use a method .replace on an undefined object, in the file nodebb-plugin-dice-bot/src/dice.js at line 84. Try to see if .replace() is called there, and check with the debugger why the object it's been called on doesn't exist. Edit: I think it has something to do with the "create post hook", or something like that. Thanks! This gives me a lead at least. I'll take a look and see if I can figure some shit out.

@baris thanks, that is exactly what I looked for: var userProvidedCatIds = widget.data.catIds; if (!userProvidedCatIds || userProvidedCatIds === '0') { categories.getCategoriesByPrivilege('cid:0:children', widget.uid, 'find', render); } else { categories.getCategories(userProvidedCatIds.split(',').map(Number), widget.uid, render); } function render(err, data) { app.render('categories.tpl', { categories: data, relative_path: nconf.get('relative_path') }, function (err, html) { widget.html = html; callback(err, html); }); } Is there any doc-site / rtfm for the JS-API or do we have to look at the source to find appropriate methods and their parameters?

@PitaJ thanks for the info

@yariplus is saying it's possible to create such a plugin, not that he would do it

Hey guys. I recently picked up NodeBB (needed it for a client) and it was (still is) awesome. However, I need help with Plugin development. I could have sat down and dissect the docs (which seems scatterd BTW), but I am super duper busy. . . And I wish to develop the plugin ASAP. So I need a link or anything (blog posts, Youtube videos, books, etc) to get me started. A blog tutorial that outlines the plugin dev process and probably builds a sample plugin would be super helpful.... And BTW, my Nodejs skills is about 6 on a scale of 10, so a dummy approach would be highly appreciated.

@pichalite thanks are these updates to match the latest version usually just little tweaks?