Adding a plugin in Composer using Plugins page modifies blueprint imports section improperly

Not sure if I understand you correctly. Are you suggesting to use plugin:cloudify-vsphere-plugin syntax on adding plugin to blueprint in Composer instead of http://repository.cloudifysource.org/cloudify/wagons/cloudify-vsphere-plugin/2.18.3/plugin.yaml? That we also thought about, but that is more complex as to validate properly such blueprint we would need to upload cloudify-vsphere-plugin to the manager. It’s doable of course, but I think that’s separate issue.

I think that preferable is the cloudify-vsphere-plugin, but if we want to keep the url I would replace

http://repository.cloudifysource.org/cloudify/wagons/cloudify-vsphere-plugin/2.18.3/plugin.yaml

with

http://repository.cloudifysource.org/cloudify/wagons/cloudify-vsphere-plugin/latest/plugin.yaml

I think the link to the yaml file is taken from plugins.json - http://repository.cloudifysource.org/cloudify/wagons/plugins.json, so if it would be updated there, then we will have latest in Composer as well. But such change will also affect all the Cloudify Manager instances using Plugins Catalog widget, so I think that’s not the right way to go. Maybe we would need another external JSON resource for Composer, but that’s separate discussion probably.

After our call on the subject, it looks like it could be a potential solution to modify the plugins json such that the plugin.yaml link will point to 'latest'.

to check that with Trammell.

Change on UI side implemented (PR). Unassigned myself from the issue and moved to to decide what to do next with it.