5. pluginv build script

The pluginv build script is available in the development environment after the environment is set up according to Getting started section. This section lists the main options and tasks provided by the pluginv script.

Every command is to be executed in the virtual environment created by pipenv, that is after pipenv shell is invoked to activate the virtual environment.

5.1. Version of Plugin SDK

To get the Plugin SDK version on the command line, execute the following command:

pluginv -V

5.2. Snapshot build

To build a snapshot version of the plugin, use the command

pluginv dist

which checks the consistency of administrative data for the plugin, add the current time to the version in MANIFEST and create the plugin ZIP package. See the next section for details about the ZIP build.

5.3. Release build

To build a release version of the plugin, use the command

pluginv release

which checks the consistency of administrative data for the plugin and create the plugin ZIP package. The ZIP package creation involves invoking several tools from the pipenv tool chain such as pipenv, virtualenv and pip. During the build a new virtual environment is created in the build directory while the final ZIP package is placed in dist directory. The name of the distributable ZIP package is the name of the plugin plus the version number followed by the zip extension.

5.4. Run test scenarios

If you want to test your plugin, use the run-scenario subcommand to run a basic RDP with gateway authentication scenario. The config-file parameter is the name of a pre-written config file the plugin will use. You can also provide the gateway and target username with the gateway-username and target-username parameters respectively.

pluginv run-scenario --config-file=config.ini --gateway-username=gateway --target-username=target