topic Getting started with plugin development using data from Morpheus in HPE Morpheus Enterprise

Getting started with plugin development using data from Morpheus

mphe — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 08:59:14 GMT

I’m starting out trying to create a plugin which will predominantly be used for populating option lists. I’m comfortable with Javascript but Groovy is entirely new to me, and my Java is rusty.

The sources of information for the lists will vary between external systems via API requests, and internal Morpheus information. It’s the latter that I’m struggling with, as I can’t find any simple examples of this…

Things that I’m trying to obtain include:

List of instances within the current tenant
Details relating to a specific instance (eg plan, volumes, IP addresses)
Details of the current logged-in user & their tenant

I’ve been scouring the examples but have been unable to find anything that gives a simple example of option lists being populated with data from within Morpheus. I can create an option list and provide data from a fixed list or external source but can’t work out how to obtain data from Morphues itself. I was hoping to avoid using HttpApiClient to make requests back to the Morpheus REST API, since I’ve then got to deal with getting the current user’s api token.

Any pointers or examples would be very much appreciated!

Re: Getting started with plugin development using data from Morpheus

Ollie-Phillips — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:28:44 GMT

I think you need to create a dataset which can be targeted by an option list, and I think the example below may be a good starting point. In it, the dataset is being created using the Morpheus API to list networks.

github.com/gomorpheus/morpheus-plugin-dataset-examples

src/main/groovy/com/morpheusdata/datasets/PluginApiDatasetProvider.groovy

main

package com.morpheusdata.datasets

import com.morpheusdata.core.MorpheusContext
import com.morpheusdata.core.Plugin
import com.morpheusdata.core.data.DataQuery
import com.morpheusdata.core.data.DatasetInfo
import com.morpheusdata.core.data.DatasetQuery
import com.morpheusdata.core.providers.AbstractDatasetProvider
import com.morpheusdata.model.Network
import io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Observable
import groovy.util.logging.Slf4j

@Slf4j
class PluginApiDatasetProvider extends AbstractDatasetProvider<Network, Long> {

	public static final providerName = 'Plugin API Dataset Provider'
	public static final providerNamespace = 'example'
	public static final providerKey = 'pluginApiDatasetExample'
	public static final providerDescription = 'A list of networks retrieved from the Morpheus plugin API'

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