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Version: v3

Metadata

Extensions need to provide metadata so that can it be displayed in the Rancher UI.

This is done my setting the metadata property on the plugin object that is passed to the init function for an extension package.

This should pull metadata from the extension's pacakge.json file, for example:

import { importTypes } from '@rancher/auto-import';
import { IPlugin } from '@shell/core/types';

// Init the package
export default function(plugin: IPlugin) {
// Auto-import model, detail, edit from the folders
// importTypes(plugin);

// Provide extension metadata from package.json
plugin.metadata = require('./package.json');

}

In addition, if you add a README.md file to your extension root folder, it's content will be used to populate the detail portion of the product description.

Example of extension metadata shown in the Rancher Extensions UI:

Product Information