Additional processing of data in Plugins

In addition to running plugin scripts on the client, you can perform additional processing on the server.

To do so, you should implement the checkin_processor method of your plugin's class. You will need to handle the writing of the data back to the database yourself.

For example, in your plugin.py:

# ...Other imports here

import sal.plugin
from server.models import *

class MyPlugin(sal.plugin.Widget):

    # ...

def checkin_processor(self, machine, report_data):
    # ...Do something with the report_data
    item_we_want = report_data['Facter']['somefact']

    # Some munging could happen here - maybe sending it to another service
    plugin_name = 'WhizzyPlugin'
    plugin_script = PluginScriptSubmission(machine=machine, plugin=plugin_name, historical=False)
    plugin_script.save()
    data = plugin.get('data')
    plugin_row = PluginScriptRow(submission=plugin_script, pluginscript_name='WhizzyData', pluginscript_data=item_we_want, submission_and_script_name=(plugin_name + ': ' + 'WhizzyData'))

    plugin_row.save()

For what it's worth, none of the builtin plugins need to use this mechanism.