Metadata Plugins

Overview

With a metadata plugin these things can be defined

  • plugin name
  • storage schema
  • config and ui config schema

You can find Livingdocs metadata plugins here: plugins/metadata on the livingdocs-server.

Schema of a Metadata Plugin

module.exports = {
  // Plugin name
  // Use the name as plugin value in the configuration
  // REQUIRED
  name: 'customername-pluginname',

  // JSON schema of stored value
  // https://json-schema.org/learn/getting-started-step-by-step.html
  // REQUIRED
  storageSchema: {
    // define your own Schema here
    type: 'string'
  },

  // JSON schema of metadata configuration
  // OPTIONAL
  configSchema: {
    // define your own Schema here
    type: 'object'
  },

  // JSON schema of metadata ui configuration
  // Define your own Schema here
  // For simple schemas Livingdocs uses https://github.com/livingdocsIO/microschema
  // OPTIONAL
  uiSchema: ms.strictObj({
    label: 'string',
    config: ms.strictObj({
      placeholder: 'string',
      readOnly: {type: 'boolean', default: false},
    }, {default: {}})
  }, {default: {}})
}

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