topic Re: ActiveGate extensions deployment? in Extensions

ActiveGate extensions deployment necessary steps

AntonioSousa — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 15:15:31 GMT

When deploying an extension to an ActiveGate, I typically recommend following these points:

Put the ZIP in the deployment directory
Unzip the ZIP file there
Restart the remotepluginmodule service

The documentation states that we only have to do #1. Are there any advantages in doing #2 and #3? I'm also concerned if the initialize function in python is executed or not in such circumstances? I've checked several documentation pages and also the SDK documentation, but still have doubts. Does anyone have more info, or experience on how this works under the hood?

Re: ActiveGate extensions deployment?

Mike_L — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:57:56 GMT

Hi,

The only necessary step is #2. Placing the zip files in that directory doesn’t accomplish anything, and as long as there is a new plugin.json file detected or a new version number in a plugin.json file the plugin module restarts automatically.

Mike

Re: ActiveGate extensions deployment?

AntonioSousa — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 17:49:34 GMT

@Mike_L,

Thanks for your reply! So, I believe from your words that it checks the plugin.json files every minute, and if it detects a new version, it restarts the remotepluginmodule service. So that implies that the initialize function is run again, but it also means it runs again for all installed extensions?

Re: ActiveGate extensions deployment?

Mike_L — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:43:58 GMT

That is correct.