How to use plugins?

[jysd]

Apache Answer offers many official plugins, which are supposed to be used by building with the applicable plugins as detailed on this page:
https://answer.apache.org/docs/plugins/

Is there any way to enable more plugins in this Cloudron packaged version? We're specifically interested in the Google auth connector.

[joseph]

@jysd in Answer, the plugins are built at compilation time . The Cloudron packages just pre-compiles with some well known plugins. Is there anything specific you are lookgin for?

[joseph]

Currently, it seems only the redis and oidc plugins are included - https://git.cloudron.io/packages/apache-answer-app/-/blob/main/Dockerfile?ref_type=heads

[jdaviescoates]

@joseph

@jysd said in How to use plugins?:

We're specifically interested in the Google auth connector.

[joseph]

Someday I hope to read entire messages

[joseph]

Nice, https://github.com/apache/answer-plugins has the plugins and versions. I will create an internal task.

[girish]

Added it here - https://git.cloudron.io/packages/apache-answer-app/-/merge_requests/8

[robi]

I just installed this for the MeiliSearch plugin and it's amazingly a single command:

./answer build --with github.com/apache/answer-plugins/search-meilisearch

You have to add more RAM to the app to build anything than the default 256M but it goes out grabs the NodeJS source, compiles it, then slurps it up into the Go binary and dumps out a new_answer.

It even cleans up the build files!

Impressive, and I assume all their plugins are as flawless. So why not enable a few more plugins for everyone?

The next question is can we use MeiliSearch for other apps via this one, since it makes it so easy.