Enable extra ports in Matrix app

[yusf]

Since the discussion of what, if any, appservices should be bundled with the Matrix app may be endless: can we have a bunch of extra tcp ports enabled in the manifest?

This way we can all integrate appservices ourselves according to our specific needs.

My suggestion is then to expand CloudronManifest.json to include:

"tcpPorts": {
    "APP_SERVICE_1": {
        "title": "Application Service 1,
        "description": "The port 1 for extra appservices",
        "defaultValue": 29001
    },
    "APP_SERVICE_2": {
        "title": "Application Service 2,
        "description": "The port 2 for extra appservices",
        "defaultValue": 29002
    },
    "APP_SERVICE_3": {
        "title": "Application Service 3,
        "description": "The port 3 for extra appservices",
        "defaultValue": 29003
    },
    "APP_SERVICE_4": {
        "title": "Application Service 4,
        "description": "The port 4 for extra appservices",
        "defaultValue": 29004
    },
    "APP_SERVICE_5": {
        "title": "Application Service 5,
        "description": "The port 5 for extra appservices",
        "defaultValue": 29005
    },
    "APP_SERVICE_6": {
        "title": "Application Service 6,
        "description": "The port 6 for extra appservices",
        "defaultValue": 29006
    },
    "APP_SERVICE_7": {
        "title": "Application Service 7,
        "description": "The port 7 for extra appservices",
        "defaultValue": 29007
    },
    "APP_SERVICE_8": {
        "title": "Application Service 8,
        "description": "The port 8 for extra appservices",
        "defaultValue": 29008
    },
    "APP_SERVICE_9": {
        "title": "Application Service 9,
        "description": "The port 9 for extra appservices",
        "defaultValue": 29009
    },
    "APP_SERVICE_10": {
        "title": "Application Service 10,
        "description": "The port 10 for extra appservices",
        "defaultValue": 29010
    },
},

[girish]

I think we need to first find out if these services are separate servers or just installable modules that synapse itself somehow automagically runs. If they are separate servers, we have to make them into a separate matrix integrations app which has all the necessary ports open.

[girish]

I guess https://matrix.org/bridges is the use case right ? It seems they are all just separate servers written in all sorts of languages.

[yusf]

Yes, they’re all separate servers. But they each need their own port into the synapse server.

My suggestion is to leave some extra ports open instead of trying to assemble an app with all/most/some of the appservices.

This way we can integrate appservices today rather than dreaming about 20 maintained ones sometime in the future, if ever. (Wouldn’t blame anyone for not trying to maintain 20 wildly different appservices since they’re all very fluid pieces of software)