Plugin Development

This section is for third-party plugin authors.

You do not need to modify the codira source tree to add a new analyzer or backend. Install your plugin package into the same Python environment as codira, expose an entry point, and verify discovery with:

codira plugins
codira plugins --json

The plugin system currently supports two extension families:

• analyzers through the codira.analyzers entry-point group
• backends through the codira.backends entry-point group

The codira plugins surface also classifies each discovered plugin as:

• origin=core
• origin=first_party
• origin=third_party

Copyable example packages live under:

• examples/plugins/codira_demo_analyzer
• examples/plugins/codira_demo_backend

Start here:

• Quick start
• Analyzer plugins
• Backend plugins
• Packaging and install
• Tutorial