nushell/crates/nu_plugin_example/src/main.rs
Devyn Cairns 01d30a416b
Change PluginCommand API to be more like Command (#12279)
# Description

This is something that was discussed in the core team meeting last
Wednesday. @ayax79 is building `nu-plugin-polars` with all of the
dataframe commands into a plugin, and there are a lot of them, so it
would help to make the API more similar. At the same time, I think the
`Command` API is just better anyway. I don't think the difference is
justified, and the types for core commands have the benefit of requiring
less `.into()` because they often don't own their data

- Broke `signature()` up into `name()`, `usage()`, `extra_usage()`,
`search_terms()`, `examples()`
- `signature()` returns `nu_protocol::Signature`
- `examples()` returns `Vec<nu_protocol::Example>`
- `PluginSignature` and `PluginExample` no longer need to be used by
plugin developers

# User-Facing Changes
Breaking API for plugins yet again 😄
2024-03-27 11:59:57 +01:00

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use nu_plugin::{serve_plugin, MsgPackSerializer};
use nu_plugin_example::ExamplePlugin;
fn main() {
// When defining your plugin, you can select the Serializer that could be
// used to encode and decode the messages. The available options are
// MsgPackSerializer and JsonSerializer. Both are defined in the serializer
// folder in nu-plugin.
serve_plugin(&ExamplePlugin {}, MsgPackSerializer {})
// Note
// When creating plugins in other languages one needs to consider how a plugin
// is added and used in nushell.
// The steps are:
// - The plugin is register. In this stage nushell calls the binary file of
// the plugin sending information using the encoded PluginCall::PluginSignature object.
// Use this encoded data in your plugin to design the logic that will return
// the encoded signatures.
// Nushell is expecting and encoded PluginResponse::PluginSignature with all the
// plugin signatures
// - When calling the plugin, nushell sends to the binary file the encoded
// PluginCall::CallInfo which has all the call information, such as the
// values of the arguments, the name of the signature called and the input
// from the pipeline.
// Use this data to design your plugin login and to create the value that
// will be sent to nushell
// Nushell expects an encoded PluginResponse::Value from the plugin
// - If an error needs to be sent back to nushell, one can encode PluginResponse::Error.
// This is a labeled error that nushell can format for pretty printing
}