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Introduction

This document describes the steps to create a plugin for OpenSpecimen. This guide is intended for developers or technical IT staff. To write a plugin one should be aware of the OpenSpecimen domain structure.

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1. Install prerequisite software which can be downloaded from http://demo.openspecimen.org/releases/Prerequisites/
2. Download the plugin skeleton os-plugin.zip  

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3. Unzip the downloaded file into a directory.

Prerequisites

Following table lists prerequisites and their supported versions.

Environment Variables

Following table lists and describes environment variables

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Steps to add custom Java classes:

1. Please add all your Java classes under PLUGIN_HOME/src/main/java/com/krishagni/openspecimen
2. All the Spring configuration should be done in PLUGIN_HOME/src/main/resources/pluginContext.xml

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Plugin Example

Below is a step by step guide to create a plugin to add a custom print token. Below are the steps to follow:

1. Create a new project by using the attached skelton
2. Import this project into any IDE like eclipse

3. Add new class
   3.1 Add custom token implementation class named SpecimenCollectionProcedurePrintToken.java in package com.krishagni.openspecimen.plugin.token, like below:

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   package com.krishagni.openspecimen.plugin.token; import com.krishagni.catissueplus.core.biospecimen.domain.Specimen; import com.krishagni.catissueplus.core.common.domain.AbstractLabelTmplToken; import com.krishagni.catissueplus.core.common.domain.LabelTmplToken; public class SpecimenCollectionProcedurePrintToken extends AbstractLabelTmplToken implements LabelTmplToken { @Override public String getName() { return "specimen_collection_procedure"; } @Override public String getReplacement(Object object) { Specimen specimen = (Specimen)object; while (specimen.getParentSpecimen() != null) { specimen = specimen.getParentSpecimen(); } return specimen.getCollectionEvent().getProcedure(); } }

   
   

   3.2. Add message key for the newly added label token. To add the message key need to update messages.properties file available at PLUGIN_HOME/src/main/resources/errors. Below is the sample: Register the token into OpenSpecimen with LabelTmplTokenRegistrar. Below is the code:

    

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   print_specimen_collection_procedure=Collection Proceudre   Note: OpenSpecimen will use this value in the cmd files as the label for collection procedure value.

   3.3. Now we need to register the above token into OpenSpecimen with LabelTmplTokenRegistrar. First create a package com.krishagni.openspecimen.plugin.init and write a class named PluginInitializer. This class will register the above token implementation with OpenSpecimen

    

    

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   package com.krishagni.openspecimen.plugin.init; import org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean; import com.krishagni.catissueplus.core.common.domain.LabelTmplTokenRegistrar; import com.krishagni.openspecimen.plugin.token.SpecimenCollectionProcedurePrintToken; public class PluginInitializer implements InitializingBean { private LabelTmplTokenRegistrar specimenPrintLabelTokensRegistrar; public void setSpecimenPrintLabelTokensRegistrar(LabelTmplTokenRegistrar specimenPrintLabelTokensRegistrar) { this.specimenPrintLabelTokensRegistrar = specimenPrintLabelTokensRegistrar; } @Override public void afterPropertiesSet() throws Exception { specimenPrintLabelTokensRegistrar.register(new SpecimenCollectionProcedurePrintToken()); } }

   3.4. We have created a custom class for the token and written a plugin initializer which will register the new token with the LabelTmplTokenRegistrar. To make Spring aware to load this class we need to update the spring context. For this we need to add below in file PLUGIN_HOME/src/main/resources/pluginContext.xml

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   <bean id="pluginInitializer" class="com.krishagni.openspecimen.plugin.init.PluginInitializer"> <property name="specimenPrintLabelTokensRegistrar" ref="specimenPrintLabelTokensRegistrar"/> </bean>

   
   

    

Steps to create plugin archive

The build system uses Gradle to manage code compilation, building plugin jar archive. 

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