Yea, I don’t mean edit the routes.go to add your service and compile it in, but 
make it so that you can have a dynamic list of

Path -> absolute URL

So for example

/api/1.3/myawesomeextensiton http://myushost.com/mypath 
<http://myushost.com/mypath>

Would result in that path calling that absolute URL.

Would that not work? 

Cheers,
JvD

> On Oct 1, 2018, at 09:50, Robert Butts <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> @jan this is for extensions, for code an organization isn't able to open
> source.
> 
> Sure, you could just add a line to `routes.go` if you want. You can do that
> right now. But you'd have to deal with regular merge conflicts.
> 
> With this dedicated plugin system, the plugins are self-contained, you
> don't modify any other file to create your plugin. Which means (in theory)
> you should never have merge conflicts when Traffic Control changes.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 10:44 AM Jan van Doorn <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Why wouldn’t we just have the routes.go be able to point to an “outside
>> url” that is the micro service?
>> 
>> Rgds,
>> JvD
>> 
>> 
>>> On Oct 1, 2018, at 09:39, Robert Butts <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> So, as we move Traffic Ops from Perl to Go, we need a way to write
>>> extensions in Go, like we have in Perl.
>>> 
>>> I wrote a plugin system for Go, modeled after the plugin frameworks in
>>> Grove and Traffic Monitor, PR is here:
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/apache/trafficcontrol/pull/2513
>>> 
>>> It's by no means complete, just like with Grove, we'll have to add
>>> additional hooks and data as we find the need. But it works, it has basic
>>> hooks, and includes some sample plugins.
>>> 
>>> There was a question about microservices, if someone wants to write
>>> extensions to their Traffic Ops as separate services, instead of built
>> into
>>> the same app. This framework allows that, it's easy to make a plugin that
>>> calls out to another service when an endpoint is requested.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone object to this PR? Could I get some +1's/-1's so we can get a
>>> feel for whether people are OK with this PR being merged, and using this
>>> plugin system for Traffic Ops going forward?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>> 
>> 

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