Allow apps to add new actions in the “New” filemenu

[otetard]

Hi,

I would be good to allow apps to add actions to the “New” (+) filemenu from the files app. To do so that would (AFAIK) need to do some modifications in the JavaScript code of the files app (in newfilemenu.js and filelist.js) :

• in filelist.js, add a new function getNewFileMenu() to be able to retrieve the NewFileMenu instance (and instanciate it, if it’s not already done);
• in newfilemenu.js, in the render() function, move items that are sent to template() to a private instance variable (for example NewFileMenu._menuItems);
• add a new function registerAction() in newfilemenu.js that could be used by plugins to add items to the menu.

I already did a proof of concept of this, but as JavaScript is not my mother tongue, it would require some polish.

Olivier;

[MorrisJobke]

cc @PVince81

[PVince81]

Sounds good.

Ideal would be to have the extending class register itself using OC.Plugins.register("OCA.Files.NewFileMenu", ...' like for example here: https://github.com/owncloud/core/blob/v8.2.0/apps/files/js/favoritesplugin.js#L115

The plugin could then attach itself to the NewFileMenu instance and call a new function addMenuEntry(entrySpec) to add new entries. Each entry would look like these https://github.com/owncloud/core/blob/v8.2.0/apps/files/js/newfilemenu.js#L202 with an additional attribute template with the template (or render method) and another one action with a function to perform the action.

[otetard]

Thanks for the feedback.

I did a first try in this branch: feature/newfilemenu_extend. Currently, this does not include the ability to add items with specific HTML templates.

Olivier;

[PVince81]

You could send a PR here so we can continue discussing