Re: Plugin Infrastructure: How to implement plugin upgrades?

Please have a look at either AGGREGATE or AUTOM8 to find a way to use the
upgrade functions.
Reinhard

On 11.07.2012 11:00, Oliver Hitz wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am working on a custom plugin for Cacti. When I upgrade the plugin
> files on my installation (including a change of the version number),
> Cacti still displays the old version, even though the new files are
> being used (apparently that information is pulled out of the
> plugin_config table).
> 
> How should I go about implementing upgrades in my plugin? The example
> plugin code (plgexample) features a plugin_plgexample_upgrade()
> function, but as far as I have seen, Cacti never calls that function.
> 
> For now, the only way to do upgrades seems to be Uninstall & Install,
> but since I create new database tables with
> api_plugin_db_table_create(), this procedure will result in losing all
> data every time the plugin is upgraded.
> 
> I am using a stock Cacti 0.8.8a during my development.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Oliver
> 
> 
> 
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