Detecting if an extension is installed and installing it if not

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Hi All,

Is anyone aware if it is possible, in code, to detect if an extension is installed and then, if it is not, installing it, say from a lex file you have available somewhere in your codebase?

I have a project that is dependant on a particular extension and I’m looking to move the project over to docker and therefore don’t want to have anything that isn’t configurable via the codebase, so I can quickly spin instances of the project up and down across multiple containers as required.

Thanks.

Andrew.

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There’s nothing that I know of. In Docker your two options are:

  • Specify the GUID of the extension via a JVM arg (assumes the extension provider that has that extension is already added in the admin!)
  • Manually copy the lex file to the deploy dir as part of your Docker image build process
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Ok, thanks, that makes sense, I’ll look at copying it to the deploy directory as part of the image build process.