Eric Day

Drizzle Modularity

Last week at the Drizzle developer day a few people were surprised at the number of plugin interfaces we’ve created already. I created this image to give a sampling of interfaces and plugins:

As you can see, things are quite different from MySQL.

4 Responses to "Drizzle Modularity"

1. Roland Bouman says:

   April 27, 2009 at 10:26 pm

   Hi Eric!

   hey, this is very interesting!

   Just being curious…

   Is there a plan to document these interfaces, or is the source code the only resource? I looked on the wiki and in drizzles doxygen documentation, but coulndn’t find information on the existence of these interfaces, and how they work together with the kernel.

   I’m also wondering a bit about how and if the interfaces are kept stable. I mean, I can imagine some things will be on the move for some time still, but perhaps some interfaces are already close to being finalized?

   Roland.
2. Eric Day says:

   April 27, 2009 at 10:36 pm

   Hi Roland!

   The interfaces are still somewhat in flux, and not well documented yet. I expect them to firm up in this next development cycle and hopefully will start getting better documentation on the wiki. Take a look in the drizzled/plugin/ directory for now, this holds the abstract classes that you need to derive to write a module (also in plugin/ for sample implementations).

   -Eric
3. mike says:

   April 28, 2009 at 2:07 am

   Is there a color key – green, yellow, and red?
4. Eric Day says:

   April 28, 2009 at 3:03 am

   Green is a logical grouping, yellow is an interface (most likely an abstract class to derive from), and orange is a plugin that either exists now or will soon (a derived class instance).

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