Hey all, I'm struggling to understand the desired way to develop functionality using this git repo. For instance, I have written my own extension and I would like to run it with guacamole-client in a docker container. From my current understanding, I need to get the .jar file for my extension so it can be loaded, which means the extension needs to be in the exentions/ folder and then built. But, if I'm trying to run this extension in the provided docker container, I somehow need to then also load it into the docker container. I would like to be able to track changes to my extension in git but that requires making changes outside of just the folder with my extension (like updating the extensions/pom.xml file to tell it to build the extension).
Some formulated questions: How do I write code for my own extension while also having an easy way to build and load the extension into the docker container? How do I load environment variables for my docker container so that they can be picked up by the extension? (like I previously did here <https://gitlab.com/Nathaniel.Belles/guacamole/-/commit/71504e043ea8575b3d314348eb6d2dd28e2163d1#40759a3888389ca45e9116bd90d64a57c1d03210_958_958>) How do I track changes to my code while also being able to pull in version changes of the main codebase? How do I test building my extension with different versions guacamole-client (v1.5.4 vs. v1.5.5 vs. 1.6.0)? (like I previously did here <https://gitlab.com/Nathaniel.Belles/guacamole/-/commit/1189a951b8b6bbe678666b450c5fd361564591c6> and here <https://gitlab.com/Nathaniel.Belles/guacamole/-/commit/69e32d31af0edd6276581954d7127c45a33b993b>) I have already started down the path of creating my own extension for adding web hooks to some common authentication tasks, which I have documented here <https://gitlab.com/Nathaniel.Belles/guacamole>. Feel free to explore that repo to see what I've been doing and provide some insight on how I could be doing things better. In fact, here <https://gitlab.com/Nathaniel.Belles/guacamole/-/commit/71504e043ea8575b3d314348eb6d2dd28e2163d1> is a link to the commit that has the code for the extension I added (and all the wrappers I had to add to get it to build and load all the environment variables properly). As a user, I didn't like keeping two separate repos for what would be similar software versions, so I integrated it into one repo and only pulled the current version of the codebase at the time and everything was working perfectly. But, as one might guess from reading this post, that the docker containers are are no longer building and I'm looking for a better way to develop code for this extension. I really liked setting this up because it meant that it was very clear from the commits exactly what changes I had made vs. changes made to the main repos. Then, I was hoping to periodically integrate the latest changes from the main github repos to this project but that was proving to be a difficult and dirty task with a lot of manual code manipulation. A lot of things have changed recently to the way that docker images are built for this repo and have made things very confusing and hard to follow. I know that's a lot of vague questions but hopefully my general confusion comes across. Any feedback/info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -Nathaniel Belles
