| Eclipse Che Documentation

This section describes how to build a custom plug-in registry. Following operations are covered:

Getting a copy of the source code necessary to build a custom plug-in registry.
Adding a new plug-in.
Building the custom plug-in registry.

Procedure

Clone the plug-in registry repository:

$ git clone git@github.com:eclipse/che-plugin-registry.git
$ cd che-plugin-registry

In the ./che-plugin-registry/v3/plugins/ directory, create new directories <publisher>/<plugin-name>/<plugin-version>/ and a meta.yaml file in the last directory.

File organization for a plugin

./che-plugin-registry/v3/plugins/
├── <publisher>
│   └── <plugin-name>
│       ├── <plugin-version>
│       │   └── meta.yaml
│       └── latest.txt

Add valid content to the meta.yaml file. See the “Using a Visual Studio Code extension in Che” section or the README.md file in the eclipse/che-plugin-registry repository for a detailed description of the meta.yaml file format.

Create a file named latest.txt with content the name of the latest <plugin-version> directory.

Example

$ tree che-plugin-registry/v3/plugins/redhat/java/
che-plugin-registry/v3/plugins/redhat/java/
├── 0.38.0
│   └── meta.yaml
├── 0.43.0
│   └── meta.yaml
├── 0.45.0
│   └── meta.yaml
├── 0.46.0
│   └── meta.yaml
├── 0.50.0
│   └── meta.yaml
└── latest.txt
$ cat che-plugin-registry/v3/plugins/redhat/java/latest.txt
0.50.0

Build the containers for the custom plug-in registry:
```
$ docker build -t my-devfile-registry .
```