Learn to create and release a Plugin

By: Vivek & Amit

AGENDA

Create a plugin

Structure of a plugin

Understanding Plugin Artefacts

Packaging a plugin

Obtaining access to grails repository

Releasing a plugin

Upgrading to a new version

Create a Plugin

Grails create-plugin

Structure of a plugin

MyPlugin.groovy

Accessing resources

Packaging a Plugin

grails package-plugin

Obtaining access to grails repository

Create an account at http://xircles.codehaus.org/

Apply as developer at http://xircles.codehaus.org/projects/grails-plugins

Subscribe to dev mailing list at dev@grails.codehaus.org

Request for access to grails repository

Username

Short description of your contribution

c)Login and apply as a developer at http://xircles.codehaus.org/projects/grails d)Wait for approval which takes atleast a couple of days.

Releasing a plugin

grails release-plugin

If successfully released, it will show up on the grails list-plugins and http://www.grails.org/plugin/category/all

Points to remember during release

Expected exceptions :Unknown host exception for the SVN repository

Error occurred with release-plugin: svn: Authentication required for ' grails-plugins primary Subversion repository'

MyPlugin/test/test not found

Authentication Failure Exception

Create ~/.grails/settings.groovy

grails.plugin.repos.discovery.grailsplugins="https://USER:PASSWORD@svn.codehaus.org/grails-plugins" user.svn.username.discovery.grailsplugins="USER" user.svn.username.discovery.grailsplugins="PASSWORD" grails.plugin.repos.distribution.grailsplugins="https://USER:PASSWORD@svn.codehaus.org/grails-plugins" user.svn.username.distribution.grailsplugins="USER" user.svn.username.distribution.grailsplugins="PASSWORD"

MyPlugin/test/test not found
Exception

Manually created a folder test inside MyPlugin/test/

Upgrading to a new version

Checkout your plugin from the grails repository

Make the required updates

Update the version number in MyPlugin.groovy

grails release-plugin

Thanks...