Hi all, Underneath the surface, I've been toiling away at a new plugin system for Dancer2. This new system aims at fixing a few of the thorny issues of the current one, and add a wee bit of unicorn dust to the mix. ## For plugin users, the changes are: * No change! The new plugins will be called the same way as the old ones -- it'll be transparent to you if a plugin is new gen or old gen. Isn't that music to your ears, or what? :-) * No change! Plugins using the new system can work side-by-side with original plugins. It's all really transparent to you. Relax, we're taking care of everything. :-) ## For plugin writers, the changes are: * The new system inherit from Dancer2::Plugin2 (yes, I know, we just loooove that '2' digit around here...). * The new system is much more OO-based, which so far makes for cleaner, easier to write plugins. * The new system doesn't export the Dancer keywords into the plugin namespace. It removes a little bit of the sugar (you'll have to do `$self->app->request` instead of `request()` inside the plugin module), but it makes much more explicit what is the plugin class, and what is the plugin instance associated with an app. * Plugin can now use other plugins! * The list of plugin instances are also kept as an attribute in the app object, which makes introspection possible (a plugin, for example, can check if other plugin A is already loaded or not and do things in consequence). ## What do I want from you? Before unleashing D2::P2, it needs to be tested. Racke already migrated two of his plugins to D2::P2 (https://github.com/PerlDancer/Dancer2/wiki/Plugins-migrated-to-D2::P2). I would like for all of you to try to migrate your plugins, and report if it was a success, or if you uncovered some sore points. How to do that? I'm glad you asked: 1. clone and use the Dancer2 branch at https://github.com/yanick/Dancer2/tree/plugins-yanick 2. read the D2::P2 docs (`perldoc lib/Dancer2/Plugin2`) 3. if docs are not sufficient, check examples (`/t/plugins2-*`) and the already-ported modules at bullet #5 below. 4. report all problems, head-scratchers, suggestions, etc to https://github.com/PerlDancer/Dancer2/pull/1010#issuecomment-147376270 5. you ported the plugin and all works? Post your victory to the PR dicussion at #4, and add your plugin to the list at https://github.com/PerlDancer/Dancer2/wiki/Plugins-migrated-to-D2::P2 (that's important, I'll set up a job to test any new tweaks on D2::P2 to all the converted modules) And, of course, you have questions or anything, please feel free to hit me with'em. Joy, `/anick