Plugin Reference

Cubes has a plug-in based architecture. The objects that can be provided through external plug-ins are: authenticators, authorizers, browsers, formatters, model_providers and stores.

Plugins are classes providing an interface respective for the plug-in class. They are advertised throgh setup.py as follows:

setup(
    name = "my_package",

    # ... regular module setup here

    # Cubes Plugin Advertisment
    #
    entry_points={
        'cubes.stores': [
            'my = my_package.MyStore',
        ],
        'cubes.authorizers': [
            'my = my_package.MyAuthorizer',
        ]
    }
)

For more information see Python Packaging User Guide