please move the plugin location from /etc/irida/plugins to the same directory as the irida war is located (or subdir of thereof)

[georgemarselis-nvi]

Describe your idea for a new feature

What is the feature you would like to see in IRIDA?

I would like to see the plugins removed from /etc/irida/plugins to somewhere under the same directory the irida.war is located (or subdirectory thereof). If you could please move the configuration file in the same directory, it would be awesome.

Describe how you would access this feature?

Where would you interact with this feature? (New pipeline, new button on the project page, REST API, etc.)

during setup and automatic installation of plugins

Additional information

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none

Thank you very much!

[apetkau]

Thanks for the suggestion.

Note that you can adjust the location of the pipeline plugins already in the /etc/irida/irida.conf file (see https://phac-nml.github.io/irida-documentation/administrator/web/#core-configuration):

pipeline.plugin.path=/etc/irida/plugins

The location of the irida.conf (and web.conf) files is also defined here:

irida/src/main/resources/application.properties

Lines 80 to 86 in 81b4714

	spring.config.import=classpath:/version.properties,\
	classpath:/ca/corefacility/bioinformatics/irida/config/filesystem.properties,\
	classpath:/ca/corefacility/bioinformatics/irida/config/caching.properties,\
	classpath:/ca/corefacility/bioinformatics/irida/config/ontology.properties,\
	classpath:/ca/corefacility/bioinformatics/irida/config/workflows.properties,\
	classpath:/ca/corefacility/bioinformatics/irida/config/openapi.properties,\
	optional:file:/etc/irida/irida.conf[.properties],optional:file:/etc/irida/web.conf[.properties]

I believe that if you just added another string here pointing to another set of files optional:file:/path/to/irida.conf[.properties],optional:file:/path/to/web.conf[.properties] it should load up configuration from those files as well. I think this entire property spring.config.import can be overridden by passing an appropriate option to Tomcat (though I would have to lookup the syntax). Or, you could modify this file in the extracted irida/ directory from the irida.war file that Tomcat makes when first starting up.

However, I realize that this isn't quite what you may have wanted since this isn't done by default and requires configuration adjustments in a few places.

[georgemarselis-nvi]

@apetkau thank you for the info, much appreciated!

but yes, it makes sense in my head for a war to create it's own directory structure and configuration outside of /etc , since war are self-contained.

thank you for the reply!

edit: if I can make an additional argument for moving the config with in the tomcat/webapps directory: I can then have multiple versions of irida each talking to their own database. This would be godsent to drag-and-drop new irida installations and upgrades: have ansible create webapps/irida-XX.version/ unzip the war file and apply appropriate configuration parameters: My users are happy cuz they can continue to use the old irida till we can give them the go-ahead to migrate and i am happy because I would not have to drop the existing irida installation while I upgrade.

only thing missing is to figure out how to set the default app for http://www.vetinst.no/irida (so I can change the default version on the fly) but I suspect that has to do with me reading up more about tomcat.)

thank you again!