(Let's be realistic here)
Introduced new "additionalNames" property on viewmodel declaration
to allow for registering alternative lookup names for a view model.
The freshly renamed FileViewModel now resolves as both "filesViewModel"
and "gcodeFilesViewModel", making the renaming backwards compatible
Documented all that stuff (and some more)
Having the plugin commands on the first level of --help proved to be
a bad idea since it basically kills every chance of lazy loading the (expensive)
plugin context. Using a sub command for anything plugin related allows us
to only fire up the plugin context if a plugin command is expected, saving us
some precious seconds of operation in all other cases.
For conformity reasons the dev sub commands were now restructured
similarly.
This will only style them in a special way and influence sorting. Plugins still need
to ensure that a step is not skipped through the use of the onWizardTabChange callback
in the view model.
That way plugins don't need to implement the SettingsPlugin mixin in order to access their data folder, which is now an injected property in OctoPrintPlugin. Plugin authors should still always use the getter since that will also make sure the folder actually does exist (lazy creation).
PluginSettings.get_plugin_data_folder has been marked as deprecated.
Added phase specific hooks for queuing, queued, sending and sent phases of a command ("octoprint.comm.protocol.gcode.<phase>"). Removed old queuing phase hook and declared as obsolete hook in plugin manager to prevent plugins that depend on it from being enabled.
Adding those new hooks also necessitated refactoring the whole command processing, made it more modular and added phase specific handler functions that allow handling all blocking commands centrally for example.
This will hopefully prevent conflicting routes between multiple plugins from being registered and also ensures a more consistent behaviour compared to BlueprintPlugin mixins.
Thanks to @Salandora for bringing this up.
The new hook allows extending the list of rules for maximum body sizes differing from the default of 100KB and can be used by plugins to allow uploads to them that exceed that file size.
Also extended the plugin manager to detect plugins that implement restart needing hooks (such as the above one) and handling those plugins the same as plugins containing implementations that inherit from octoprint.plugin.core.RestartNeedingPlugin
* moved virtual printer into plugin
* made default serial factory use supplied parameters instead of directly utilizing self._port and similar
* documented new hook
Multiple mixins are allowed of course. Allowing multiple implementations lead to too many problems due to plugin names for referring to the APIs of SimpleApiPlugins or the assets of AssetPlugins.
Hence __plugin_implementations__ has been deprecated in favor of __plugin_implementation__. The plugin subsystem will automatically copy the first implementation from __plugin_implementations__ to __plugin_implementation__ and log a deprecation warning.
Adjusted documentation accordingly. Also added docs for helpers.
