From: "Max R. Carrara" <m.carrara@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Cc: Alfonso Kuen <gerencia@idkmanager.com>,
Thomas Ellmenreich <t.ellmenreich@proxmox.com>,
Jakob Klocker <j.klocker@proxmox.com>
Subject: [PATCH pve-storage v4 03/17] api: plugins/storage/plugin: include schema in plugin metadata
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2026 16:45:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261106154554.2182986-4-m.carrara@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261106154554.2182986-1-m.carrara@proxmox.com>
Return a simple schema describing the plugin as part of its metadata.
This schema is simply a hash consisting of a given plugin's
properties' schemas. Each property schema is obtained by calling the
`get_property_schema()` method of `PVE::SectionConfig` (which
`PVE::Storage::Plugin` inherits) for each property that a given plugin
uses in its `options()`. Additionally, each plugin's `options()` are
also taken into account, and the schemas are memoized.
This means that each returned schema is completely derived from the
given plugin's section config, that is, the (globally) available
properties and the plugin's `options()`. At the same time, this should
be adaptable enough to include extra hints, such as whether a property
is sensitive or not, for example.
Deriving a schema for each plugin like this is preferable over
exposing `createSchema()` and `updateSchema()` of
`PVE::Storage::Plugin` directly. In particular, these two schemas come
with some drawbacks when it comes to describing an *individual*
plugin's data:
- Neither schema contains any information on which properties are used
by which plugins.
- It is not possible to determine whether a property is actually
optional (or not) for a given plugin. If one plugin declares a
property as optional somewhere, the property will be optional in the
schema in most cases, despite being non-optional for other plugins.
(This is generally true; skipping over a bunch of SectionConfig
implementation details here for the sake of brevity).
- The same is true even more so for fixed properties. While the
`updateSchema()` will oftentimes *not* contain fixed properties,
meaning that you can compare it with `createSchema()` and figure out
which properties *may* be fixed, this only holds if the property is
fixed in *every* plugin's `options()`. As soon as a plugin declares
a usually fixed property as non-fixed, the property is included in
the `updateSchema()`.
- Even when switching to property isolation for
`PVE::Storage::Plugin`, which properties are fixed / optional for
individual plugins is still not consistently determinable for the
previous two reasons.
This means that in addition to exposing `createSchema()` and
`updateSchema()`, we would also have to expose the `options()` of each
plugin, and then stitch all of that information together again just to
obtain the hash that the `get_schema_for_plugin()` helper being added
here returns.
Additionally, `get_property_schema()` takes property isolation into
account. More precisely, if one were to enable property isolation and
copy-paste the formerly global property definitions into the
`properties()` of each plugin where needed, the returned schema would
stay the same.
Whether a property is optional for a plugin is taken from the plugin's
`options()` only, which is also what is enforced when the config is
checked. The property schemas themselves cannot be used for that, as
the global property list marks every plugin property as optional.
Signed-off-by: Max R. Carrara <m.carrara@proxmox.com>
---
src/PVE/API2/Plugins/Storage/Plugin.pm | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 52 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/PVE/API2/Plugins/Storage/Plugin.pm b/src/PVE/API2/Plugins/Storage/Plugin.pm
index e5d6b04f..07909c40 100644
--- a/src/PVE/API2/Plugins/Storage/Plugin.pm
+++ b/src/PVE/API2/Plugins/Storage/Plugin.pm
@@ -20,18 +20,68 @@ my $PLUGIN_METADATA_SCHEMA = {
properties => {
module => {
type => 'string',
optional => 0,
},
+ schema => {
+ type => 'object',
+ optional => 0,
+ },
type => {
type => 'string',
optional => 0,
enum => $ALL_PLUGIN_TYPES,
},
},
};
+my $PLUGIN_SCHEMAS = {};
+
+my sub get_schema_for_plugin : prototype($) ($plugin) {
+ my $type = $plugin->type();
+
+ return $PLUGIN_SCHEMAS->{$type} if defined($PLUGIN_SCHEMAS->{$type});
+
+ my $options = $plugin->options();
+
+ my $schema = {};
+ $PLUGIN_SCHEMAS->{$type} = $schema;
+
+ for my $option (keys $options->%*) {
+ my $prop_schema = PVE::RESTHandler::api_dump_remove_refs(
+ PVE::Storage::Plugin->get_property_schema($type, $option));
+
+ # shallow copy
+ my $property = { $prop_schema->%* };
+ $schema->{$option} = $property;
+
+ for my $opt_key (keys $options->{$option}->%*) {
+ $property->{$opt_key} = $options->{$option}->{$opt_key};
+ }
+
+ # NOTE: The global property list in SectionConfig marks every plugin
+ # property as optional. This means that we cannot rely on the
+ # `optional` key that the `get_property_schema` above returns for
+ # validation in the front end; it would mark required values as
+ # optional.
+ #
+ # Note that we also cannot rely on `createSchema()` / `updateSchema()`
+ # here for the same reason.
+ #
+ # Therefore, we override this key below with what the plugin's
+ # `options()` set directly. This makes it so that the front end
+ # validation matches the back end's.
+ #
+ # See the docstring for PVE::SectionConfig::properties() for more
+ # information.
+ my $is_optional = $options->{$option}->{optional};
+ $property->{optional} = $is_optional ? 1 : 0;
+ }
+
+ return $schema;
+}
+
# plugins/storage/plugin
__PACKAGE__->register_method({
name => 'index',
path => '',
@@ -54,10 +104,11 @@ __PACKAGE__->register_method({
for my $type ($ALL_PLUGIN_TYPES->@*) {
my $plugin = PVE::Storage::Plugin->lookup($type);
my $item = {
module => $plugin,
+ schema => get_schema_for_plugin($plugin),
type => $type,
};
push($result->@*, $item);
}
@@ -94,10 +145,11 @@ __PACKAGE__->register_method({
raise("Plugin '$param_type' not found - $@", code => HTTP_NOT_FOUND);
}
my $result = {
module => $plugin,
+ schema => get_schema_for_plugin($plugin),
type => $param_type,
};
return $result;
},
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-06 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-06 15:45 [PATCH common/manager/proxmox-widget-toolkit/storage/storage-plugin-examples v4 00/17] GUI Support for Custom Storage Plugins Max R. Carrara
2026-11-06 15:45 ` [PATCH pve-common v4 01/17] json schema: add multiline string format Max R. Carrara
2026-11-06 15:45 ` [PATCH pve-storage v4 02/17] api: plugins/storage: add initial routes and endpoints Max R. Carrara
2026-11-06 15:45 ` Max R. Carrara [this message]
2026-11-06 15:45 ` [PATCH pve-storage v4 04/17] api: plugins/storage/plugin: mark sensitive properties in schema Max R. Carrara
2026-11-06 15:45 ` [PATCH pve-storage v4 05/17] api: plugins/storage/plugin: factor plugin metadata code into helper Max R. Carrara
2026-11-06 15:45 ` [PATCH pve-storage v4 06/17] api: plugins/storage/plugin: add plugins' 'content' to their metadata Max R. Carrara
2026-11-06 15:45 ` [PATCH pve-storage v4 07/17] all plugins: add 'title' to properties, adapt 'description's Max R. Carrara
2026-11-06 15:45 ` [PATCH pve-storage v4 08/17] all plugins, api: mark certain properties as advanced in plugindata() Max R. Carrara
2026-11-06 15:45 ` [PATCH pve-storage v4 09/17] all plugins, api: mark certain properties as hidden " Max R. Carrara
2026-11-06 15:45 ` [PATCH proxmox-widget-toolkit v4 10/17] form: introduce new 'proxmoxtextarea' field Max R. Carrara
2026-11-06 15:45 ` [PATCH proxmox-widget-toolkit v4 11/17] utils: introduce helper function getFieldDefFromPropertySchema Max R. Carrara
2026-11-06 15:45 ` [PATCH proxmox-widget-toolkit v4 12/17] acme: use helper to construct ExtJS fields from property schemas Max R. Carrara
2026-11-06 15:45 ` [PATCH pve-manager v4 13/17] api: sort modules and API method registrations Max R. Carrara
2026-11-06 15:45 ` [PATCH pve-manager v4 14/17] api: add API routes 'plugins' and 'plugins/storage' Max R. Carrara
2026-11-06 15:45 ` [PATCH pve-manager v4 15/17] ui: storage view: display error when no editor for storage type exists Max R. Carrara
2026-11-06 15:45 ` [PATCH pve-manager v4 16/17] ui: storage: add basic UI integration for custom storage plugins Max R. Carrara
2026-11-06 15:45 ` [PATCH pve-storage-plugin-examples v4 17/17] sshfs: Update SSHFS plugin Max R. Carrara
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