# Description
[Context on
Discord](https://discord.com/channels/601130461678272522/855947301380947968/1292279795035668583)
**This is a breaking change, due to the removal of `is_running`.**
Some users find the `plugin list` command confusing, because it doesn't
show anything different after running `plugin add` or `plugin rm`. This
modifies the `plugin list` command to also look at the plugin registry
file to give some idea of how the plugins in engine state differ from
those in the plugin registry file.
The following values of `status` are now produced instead of
`is_running`:
- `added`: The plugin is present in the plugin registry file, but not in
the engine.
- `loaded`: The plugin is present both in the plugin registry file and
in the engine, but is not running.
- `running`: The plugin is currently running, and the `pid` column
should contain its process ID.
- `modified`: The plugin state present in the plugin registry file is
different from the state in the engine.
- `removed`: The plugin is still loaded in the engine, but is not
present in the plugin registry file.
- `invalid`: The data in the plugin registry file couldn't be
deserialized, and the plugin most likely needs to be added again.
Example (`commands` omitted):
```
╭──────┬─────────────────────┬────────────┬───────────┬──────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────╮
│ # │ name │ version │ status │ pid │ filename │ shell │
├──────┼─────────────────────┼────────────┼───────────┼──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│ 0 │ custom_values │ 0.1.0 │ loaded │ │ /home/devyn/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_custom_values │ │
│ 1 │ dbus │ 0.11.0 │ loaded │ │ /home/devyn/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_dbus │ │
│ 2 │ example │ 0.98.1 │ loaded │ │ /home/devyn/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_example │ │
│ 3 │ explore_ir │ 0.3.0 │ loaded │ │ /home/devyn/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_explore_ir │ │
│ 4 │ formats │ 0.98.1 │ loaded │ │ /home/devyn/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_formats │ │
│ 5 │ gstat │ 0.98.1 │ running │ 236662 │ /home/devyn/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_gstat │ │
│ 6 │ inc │ 0.98.1 │ loaded │ │ /home/devyn/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_inc │ │
│ 7 │ polars │ 0.98.1 │ added │ │ /home/devyn/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_polars │ │
│ 8 │ query │ 0.98.1 │ removed │ │ /home/devyn/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_query │ │
│ 9 │ stress_internals │ 0.98.1 │ loaded │ │ /home/devyn/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_stress_internals │ │
╰──────┴─────────────────────┴────────────┴───────────┴──────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────╯
```
# User-Facing Changes
To `plugin list`:
* **Breaking:** The `is_running` column is removed and replaced with
`status`. Use `status == running` to filter equivalently.
* The `--plugin-config` from other plugin management commands is now
supported.
* Added an `--engine` flag which behaves more or less like before, and
doesn't load the plugin registry file at all.
* Added a `--registry` flag which only checks the plugin registry file.
All plugins appear as `added` since there is no state to compare with.
Because the default is to check both, the `plugin list` command might be
a little bit slower. If you don't need to check the plugin registry
file, the `--engine` flag does not load the plugin registry file at all,
so it should be just as fast as before.
# Tests + Formatting
Added tests for `added` and `removed` statuses. `modified` and `invalid`
are a bit more tricky so I didn't try.
# After Submitting
- [ ] update documentation that references the `plugin list` command
- [ ] release notes
# Description
[Context on
Discord](https://discord.com/channels/601130461678272522/855947301380947968/1292279795035668583)
**This is a breaking change, due to the removal of `is_running`.**
Some users find the `plugin list` command confusing, because it doesn't
show anything different after running `plugin add` or `plugin rm`. This
modifies the `plugin list` command to also look at the plugin registry
file to give some idea of how the plugins in engine state differ from
those in the plugin registry file.
The following values of `status` are now produced instead of
`is_running`:
- `added`: The plugin is present in the plugin registry file, but not in
the engine.
- `loaded`: The plugin is present both in the plugin registry file and
in the engine, but is not running.
- `running`: The plugin is currently running, and the `pid` column
should contain its process ID.
- `modified`: The plugin state present in the plugin registry file is
different from the state in the engine.
- `removed`: The plugin is still loaded in the engine, but is not
present in the plugin registry file.
- `invalid`: The data in the plugin registry file couldn't be
deserialized, and the plugin most likely needs to be added again.
Example (`commands` omitted):
```
╭──────┬─────────────────────┬────────────┬───────────┬──────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────╮
│ # │ name │ version │ status │ pid │ filename │ shell │
├──────┼─────────────────────┼────────────┼───────────┼──────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│ 0 │ custom_values │ 0.1.0 │ loaded │ │ /home/devyn/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_custom_values │ │
│ 1 │ dbus │ 0.11.0 │ loaded │ │ /home/devyn/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_dbus │ │
│ 2 │ example │ 0.98.1 │ loaded │ │ /home/devyn/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_example │ │
│ 3 │ explore_ir │ 0.3.0 │ loaded │ │ /home/devyn/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_explore_ir │ │
│ 4 │ formats │ 0.98.1 │ loaded │ │ /home/devyn/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_formats │ │
│ 5 │ gstat │ 0.98.1 │ running │ 236662 │ /home/devyn/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_gstat │ │
│ 6 │ inc │ 0.98.1 │ loaded │ │ /home/devyn/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_inc │ │
│ 7 │ polars │ 0.98.1 │ added │ │ /home/devyn/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_polars │ │
│ 8 │ query │ 0.98.1 │ removed │ │ /home/devyn/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_query │ │
│ 9 │ stress_internals │ 0.98.1 │ loaded │ │ /home/devyn/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_stress_internals │ │
╰──────┴─────────────────────┴────────────┴───────────┴──────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────╯
```
# User-Facing Changes
To `plugin list`:
* **Breaking:** The `is_running` column is removed and replaced with
`status`. Use `status == running` to filter equivalently.
* The `--plugin-config` from other plugin management commands is now
supported.
* Added an `--engine` flag which behaves more or less like before, and
doesn't load the plugin registry file at all.
* Added a `--registry` flag which only checks the plugin registry file.
All plugins appear as `added` since there is no state to compare with.
Because the default is to check both, the `plugin list` command might be
a little bit slower. If you don't need to check the plugin registry
file, the `--engine` flag does not load the plugin registry file at all,
so it should be just as fast as before.
# Tests + Formatting
Added tests for `added` and `removed` statuses. `modified` and `invalid`
are a bit more tricky so I didn't try.
# After Submitting
- [ ] update documentation that references the `plugin list` command
- [ ] release notes
# Description
The meaning of the word usage is specific to describing how a command
function is *used* and not a synonym for general description. Usage can
be used to describe the SYNOPSIS or EXAMPLES sections of a man page
where the permitted argument combinations are shown or example *uses*
are given.
Let's not confuse people and call it what it is a description.
Our `help` command already creates its own *Usage* section based on the
available arguments and doesn't refer to the description with usage.
# User-Facing Changes
`help commands` and `scope commands` will now use `description` or
`extra_description`
`usage`-> `description`
`extra_usage` -> `extra_description`
Breaking change in the plugin protocol:
In the signature record communicated with the engine.
`usage`-> `description`
`extra_usage` -> `extra_description`
The same rename also takes place for the methods on
`SimplePluginCommand` and `PluginCommand`
# Tests + Formatting
- Updated plugin protocol specific changes
# After Submitting
- [ ] update plugin protocol doc
# Description
This allows plugins to report their version (and potentially other
metadata in the future). The version is shown in `plugin list` and in
`version`.
The metadata is stored in the registry file, and reflects whatever was
retrieved on `plugin add`, not necessarily the running binary. This can
help you to diagnose if there's some kind of mismatch with what you
expect. We could potentially use this functionality to show a warning or
error if a plugin being run does not have the same version as what was
in the cache file, suggesting `plugin add` be run again, but I haven't
done that at this point.
It is optional, and it requires the plugin author to make some code
changes if they want to provide it, since I can't automatically
determine the version of the calling crate or anything tricky like that
to do it.
Example:
```
> plugin list | select name version is_running pid
╭───┬────────────────┬─────────┬────────────┬─────╮
│ # │ name │ version │ is_running │ pid │
├───┼────────────────┼─────────┼────────────┼─────┤
│ 0 │ example │ 0.93.1 │ false │ │
│ 1 │ gstat │ 0.93.1 │ false │ │
│ 2 │ inc │ 0.93.1 │ false │ │
│ 3 │ python_example │ 0.1.0 │ false │ │
╰───┴────────────────┴─────────┴────────────┴─────╯
```
cc @maxim-uvarov (he asked for it)
# User-Facing Changes
- `plugin list` gets a `version` column
- `version` shows plugin versions when available
- plugin authors *should* add `fn metadata()` to their `impl Plugin`,
but don't have to
# Tests + Formatting
Tested the low level stuff and also the `plugin list` column.
# After Submitting
- [ ] update plugin guide docs
- [ ] update plugin protocol docs (`Metadata` call & response)
- [ ] update plugin template (`fn metadata()` should be easy)
- [ ] release notes
# Description
Does some misc changes to `ListStream`:
- Moves it into its own module/file separate from `RawStream`.
- `ListStream`s now have an associated `Span`.
- This required changes to `ListStreamInfo` in `nu-plugin`. Note sure if
this is a breaking change for the plugin protocol.
- Hides the internals of `ListStream` but also adds a few more methods.
- This includes two functions to more easily alter a stream (these take
a `ListStream` and return a `ListStream` instead of having to go through
the whole `into_pipeline_data(..)` route).
- `map`: takes a `FnMut(Value) -> Value`
- `modify`: takes a function to modify the inner stream.
# Description
Continuing from #12568, this PR further reduces the size of `Expr` from
64 to 40 bytes. It also reduces `Expression` from 128 to 96 bytes and
`Type` from 32 to 24 bytes.
This was accomplished by:
- for `Expr` with multiple fields (e.g., `Expr::Thing(A, B, C)`),
merging the fields into new AST struct types and then boxing this struct
(e.g. `Expr::Thing(Box<ABC>)`).
- replacing `Vec<T>` with `Box<[T]>` in multiple places. `Expr`s and
`Expression`s should rarely be mutated, if at all, so this optimization
makes sense.
By reducing the size of these types, I didn't notice a large performance
improvement (at least compared to #12568). But this PR does reduce the
memory usage of nushell. My config is somewhat light so I only noticed a
difference of 1.4MiB (38.9MiB vs 37.5MiB).
---------
Co-authored-by: Stefan Holderbach <sholderbach@users.noreply.github.com>
# Description
Adds a new keyword, `plugin use`. Unlike `register`, this merely loads
the signatures from the plugin cache file. The file is configurable with
the `--plugin-config` option either to `nu` or to `plugin use` itself,
just like the other `plugin` family of commands. At the REPL, one might
do this to replace `register`:
```nushell
> plugin add ~/.cargo/bin/nu_plugin_foo
> plugin use foo
```
This will not work in a script, because `plugin use` is a keyword and
`plugin add` does not evaluate at parse time (intentionally). This means
we no longer run random binaries during parse.
The `--plugins` option has been added to allow running `nu` with certain
plugins in one step. This is used especially for the `nu_with_plugins!`
test macro, but I'd imagine is generally useful. The only weird quirk is
that it has to be a list, and we don't really do this for any of our
other CLI args at the moment.
`register` now prints a deprecation parse warning.
This should fix#11923, as we now have a complete alternative to
`register`.
# User-Facing Changes
- Add `plugin use` command
- Deprecate `register`
- Add `--plugins` option to `nu` to replace a common use of `register`
# Tests + Formatting
I think I've tested it thoroughly enough and every existing test passes.
Testing nu CLI options and alternate config files is a little hairy and
I wish there were some more generic helpers for this, so this will go on
my TODO list for refactoring.
- 🟢 `toolkit fmt`
- 🟢 `toolkit clippy`
- 🟢 `toolkit test`
- 🟢 `toolkit test stdlib`
# After Submitting
- [ ] Update plugins sections of book
- [ ] Release notes
# Description
- Plugin signatures are now saved to `plugin.msgpackz`, which is
brotli-compressed MessagePack.
- The file is updated incrementally, rather than writing all plugin
commands in the engine every time.
- The file always contains the result of the `Signature` call to the
plugin, even if commands were removed.
- Invalid data for a particular plugin just causes an error to be
reported, but the rest of the plugins can still be parsed
# User-Facing Changes
- The plugin file has a different filename, and it's not a nushell
script.
- The default `plugin.nu` file will be automatically migrated the first
time, but not other plugin config files.
- We don't currently provide any utilities that could help edit this
file, beyond `plugin add` and `plugin rm`
- `from msgpackz`, `to msgpackz` could also help
- New commands: `plugin add`, `plugin rm`
# Tests + Formatting
Tests added for the format and for the invalid handling.
- 🟢 `toolkit fmt`
- 🟢 `toolkit clippy`
- 🟢 `toolkit test`
- 🟢 `toolkit test stdlib`
# After Submitting
- [ ] Check for documentation changes
- [ ] Definitely needs release notes
