It occurs to me to create a very simple "Controllable" API and add a minor callout in the PluginManager to disable the function of a plugin based on it occurring in an excluded list, or enable it based on an included list (either? both?). A disabled plugin would either be entirely ignored by the parser/PluginManager, return an empty string, or some kind of error message (this might be defined by the API). I'm thinking of writing some kind of UI or JSP to permit an administrator to individually set a flag for each plugin.
I was actually going to do something like that but sort of ran out of time. Admin.jsp allows you to list all the installed plugins, and the idea was that you could turn plugins (well, any kind of modules: filters, editors, etc) on and off from there.
Essentially it would mean a new field in the WikiModuleInfo, and necessary code in the PluginManager. I would most prefer if the UI were in the form of an AdminBean.
Could be targeted for 2.8.x, x >=1. /Janne
