Commit 3ecf41ec authored by Yorick Peterse's avatar Yorick Peterse

Added docs for the new EE injection methods

parent cc6619a8
......@@ -125,20 +125,24 @@ This also applies to views.
### EE features based on CE features
For features that build on existing CE features, write a module in the `EE`
namespace and `prepend` it in the CE class, on the last line of the file that
the class resides in. This makes conflicts less likely to happen during CE to EE
merges because only one line is added to the CE class - the `prepend` line. For
example, to prepend a module into the `User` class you would use the following
approach:
namespace and inject it in the CE class, on the last line of the file that the
class resides in. This makes conflicts less likely to happen during CE to EE
merges because only one line is added to the CE class - the line that injects
the module. For example, to prepend a module into the `User` class you would use
the following approach:
```ruby
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
# ... lots of code here ...
end
User.prepend(EE::User)
User.prepend_if_ee('EE::User')
```
Do not use methods such as `prepend`, `extend`, and `include`. Instead, use
`prepend_if_ee`, `extend_if_ee`, or `include_if_ee`. These methods take a
_String_ containing the full module name as the argument, not the module itself.
Since the module would require an `EE` namespace, the file should also be
put in an `ee/` sub-directory. For example, we want to extend the user model
in EE, so we have a module called `::EE::User` put inside
......@@ -255,7 +259,7 @@ class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
# ...
end
ApplicationController.prepend(EE::ApplicationController)
ApplicationController.prepend_if_ee('EE::ApplicationController')
```
And create a new file in the `ee/` sub-directory with the altered
......@@ -504,9 +508,9 @@ EE-specific LDAP classes in `ee/lib/ee/gitlab/ldap`.
### Code in `lib/api/`
It can be very tricky to extend EE features by a single line of `prepend`,
and for each different [Grape](https://github.com/ruby-grape/grape) feature,
we might need different strategies to extend it. To apply different strategies
It can be very tricky to extend EE features by a single line of `prepend_if_ee`,
and for each different [Grape](https://github.com/ruby-grape/grape) feature, we
might need different strategies to extend it. To apply different strategies
easily, we would use `extend ActiveSupport::Concern` in the EE module.
Put the EE module files following
......@@ -543,12 +547,12 @@ constants.
We can define `params` and utilize `use` in another `params` definition to
include params defined in EE. However, we need to define the "interface" first
in CE in order for EE to override it. We don't have to do this in other places
due to `prepend`, but Grape is complex internally and we couldn't easily do
that, so we'll follow regular object-oriented practices that we define the
due to `prepend_if_ee`, but Grape is complex internally and we couldn't easily
do that, so we'll follow regular object-oriented practices that we define the
interface first here.
For example, suppose we have a few more optional params for EE. We can move the
params out of the `Grape::API` class to a helper module, so we can `prepend` it
params out of the `Grape::API` class to a helper module, so we can inject it
before it would be used in the class.
```ruby
......@@ -583,7 +587,7 @@ module API
end
end
API::Helpers::ProjectsHelpers.prepend(EE::API::Helpers::ProjectsHelpers)
API::Helpers::ProjectsHelpers.prepend_if_ee('EE::API::Helpers::ProjectsHelpers')
```
We could override it in EE module:
......@@ -624,7 +628,7 @@ module API
end
end
API::JobArtifacts.prepend(EE::API::JobArtifacts)
API::JobArtifacts.prepend_if_ee('EE::API::JobArtifacts')
```
And then we can follow regular object-oriented practices to override it:
......@@ -677,7 +681,7 @@ module API
end
end
API::MergeRequests.prepend(EE::API::MergeRequests)
API::MergeRequests.prepend_if_ee('EE::API::MergeRequests')
```
Note that `update_merge_request_ee` doesn't do anything in CE, but
......@@ -717,8 +721,8 @@ Sometimes we need to use different arguments for a particular API route, and we
can't easily extend it with an EE module because Grape has different context in
different blocks. In order to overcome this, we need to move the data to a class
method that resides in a separate module or class. This allows us to extend that
module or class before its data is used, without having to place a `prepend` in
the middle of CE code.
module or class before its data is used, without having to place a
`prepend_if_ee` in the middle of CE code.
For example, in one place we need to pass an extra argument to
`at_least_one_of` so that the API could consider an EE-only argument as the
......@@ -739,7 +743,7 @@ module API
end
end
API::MergeRequests::Parameters.prepend(EE::API::MergeRequests::Parameters)
API::MergeRequests::Parameters.prepend_if_ee('EE::API::MergeRequests::Parameters')
# api/merge_requests.rb
module API
......@@ -789,7 +793,7 @@ class Identity < ActiveRecord::Base
[:provider]
end
prepend EE::Identity
prepend_if_ee('EE::Identity')
validates :extern_uid,
allow_blank: true,
......@@ -841,7 +845,7 @@ class Identity < ActiveRecord::Base
end
end
Identity::UniquenessScopes.prepend(EE::Identity::UniquenessScopes)
Identity::UniquenessScopes.prepend_if_ee('EE::Identity::UniquenessScopes')
# app/models/identity.rb
class Identity < ActiveRecord::Base
......
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