stevedore User Guide

• Patterns for Loading
  • Drivers – Single Name, Single Entry Point
  • Hooks – Single Name, Many Entry Points
  • Extensions – Many Names, Many Entry Points
• Patterns for Enabling
  • Enabled Through Installation
  • Enabled Explicitly
  • Self-Enabled
• Using Stevedore in Your Application
  • Guidelines for Naming Plugins
  • Creating Plugins
  • Loading the Plugins
  • Testing
• Sphinx Integration
  • .. list-plugins::
  • Simple List
  • Detailed Lists
• Dynamic Code Patterns: Extending Your Applications with Plugins
  • Why Use Plugins?
  • Requirements for Ceilometer
  • Other Plugin-based Applications
  • Discovery
  • Enabling
  • Importing
  • Application/Plugin Integration
  • API Enforcement
  • Invocation
  • Ceilometer Design
  • Conclusions
• ChangeLog
  • CHANGES