Redeploying Plug-ins During Development
When you are developing and testing a plug-in, you can trigger redeployment
frequently by using the
Redeploy
button, without the need to make
changes to the extension registration record. After the Redeploy
button is enabled, it is visible in the Client Plug-Ins
window, where
it applies to any selected plug-in. The button causes vCenter Server to undeploy the
selected plug-in, and then deploy it again based on the same registration
record.Redeploy feature in Plugin
Developer Mode
To enable the
Redeploy
button, set pluginDeveloperMode
by appending the query parameter
pluginDeveloperMode=true
to any URL loaded into the browser window.
For example, the URL could be the following:https://
vcenter-server-fqdn
/ui/?pluginDeveloperMode=trueWhen you set
pluginDeveloperMode
, it remains in effect until you browse to a URL
that contains the query parameter pluginDeveloperMode=false
, or until
you refresh the browser window while the browser addres field does not include
pluginDeveloperMode=true
.