Need a command to show all plugins

[wangjiaxi90]

Hello,

I hope  packer could have a command which likes ‘packer plugins’.

At the top of shown ,I hope it can be the third-party plugins , and then display inner plugins.

The reason for this demand is that I installed a third-party plug-in, but when I configure the type field in build.json, Unknown builder is displayed. I am pretty sure that my plug-in is successfully installed after I execute packer init, and I There is this plugin in the .packer.d directory. I suspect that there is a problem with my type field parameter, but I am not sure.

Here is the link of my packer-plugin : https://github.com/wangjiaxi90/packer-plugin-qingwang

Thanks

[SwampDragons]

Hi, thanks for reaching out! This is a good idea. For now, can you share the HCL template you're using that is failing? We can help you debug.

[wangjiaxi90]

Thanks for your reply, here is my packer init script

packer {
required_plugins {
docker = {
version = ">=0.0.1"
source = "github.com/hashicorp/docker"
}
qingwang = {
version = ">=0.0.3"
source = "github.com/wangjiaxi90/qingwang"
}
qingcloud = {
version = ">=0.0.1"
source = "github.com/wangjiaxi90/qingcloud"
}
}
}

And here is my build.json

{
"variables": {},
"builders": [
{
"type":"qingwang",
"base_image_id": "xenial3x64",
"api_key": "mock_api_key",
"api_secret": "mock_api_secret",
"zone": "pek3a",
"protocol": "https",
"host": "api.qingcloud.com",
"port": "443",
"uri": "/iaas",
"log_level": "info",
"yxnet_id": "vxnet-0",
"eip_id": "",
"securitygroup_id": "",
"keypair_id": "",
"image_id": "",
"image_name": "",
"cpu": "1",
"memory": "1024",
"instance_class": ""
},
{
"type":"qingcloud"
},
{
"type":"docker"
}
],
"post-processors": []
}

[sylviamoss]

Hey there, I believe there are two problems with your configuration.

The first one is that both plugins qingcloud and qingwang didn't register the build with the plugin.DEFAULT_NAME variable. That means when using them you must use qingcloud-qingcloud and qingwang-qingcloud

Here's the code:
https://github.com/wangjiaxi90/packer-plugin-qingcloud/blob/master/main.go#L14
https://github.com/wangjiaxi90/packer-plugin-qingwang/blob/master/main.go

The other issue is that, in order to build a template initialized with packer init ., the template must include the packer.required_plugins block. That said, your template has to be an HCL2 template. I've upgraded the one you provided with our hcl2_upgrade command and here it goes:

packer {
  required_plugins {
    docker = {
      version = ">=0.0.1"
      source = "github.com/hashicorp/docker"
    }
    qingwang = {
      version = ">=0.0.3"
      source = "github.com/wangjiaxi90/qingwang"
    }
    qingcloud = {
      version = ">=0.0.1"
      source = "github.com/wangjiaxi90/qingcloud"
    }
  }
}


source "qingwang-qingcloud" "example" {
  api_key          = "mock_api_key"
  api_secret       = "mock_api_secret"
  base_image_id    = "xenial3x64"
  cpu              = "1"
  eip_id           = ""
  host             = "api.qingcloud.com"
  image_id         = ""
  image_name       = ""
  instance_class   = ""
  keypair_id       = ""
  log_level        = "info"
  memory           = "1024"
  port             = "443"
  protocol         = "https"
  securitygroup_id = ""
  uri              = "/iaas"
  yxnet_id         = "vxnet-0"
  zone             = "pek3a"
}

build {
  sources = ["source.qingwang-qingcloud.example"]
}

[sylviamoss]

Here you can find about the plugin.DEFAULT_NAME I'm talking about
https://www.packer.io/docs/plugins/creation#plugin-development-basics

[wangjiaxi90]

Thank you very much!
I will test it now！
Thanks again for your reply！

[wangjiaxi90]

Hi everyone, my plugin has been successfully built.
And then I conceived it in detail.

$ packer plugins

[show all plugins in simplfy info]

$ packer plugins [--sort=param1] [--source=param2]

param1 = “install_time” (defult desc)
= “organization”

Example: $ packer plugins --sort=install_time

param2 is a string to filter the domain

Example : $ packer plugins --source=github.wangjiaxi90

$ packer plugins <plugin name>

[show the details of ‘plugin name’]

Example: $ packer plugins qingcloud-qingcloud

$ packer plugins <plugin name> [--conf]

[show all configurations of ‘plugin name’ and list each one type and is required]

Example: $ packer plugins qingcloud-qingcloud --conf

$ packer plugins [plugin name] [--demo_hcl]

[show the demo hcl whitch may in docs folder or according the conf to generate a demo]

Example: $ packer plugins qingcloud-qingcloud --demo_hcl

[azr]

Hello there #11553 added support for this ! This will be available to test in the next nightly release soon, or in the PR's artifacts binaries. Feel free to drop some feedback !

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