Plugins¶

Deprecated: Plugins remain supported throughout banip 2.x but will be removed in banip 3.0. New integrations should be implemented outside banip while their requirements are evaluated for possible first-class commands.

See Deprecations for the public status and version 3 removal checklist.

Legacy banip plugins add commands that can use generated build products. Each plugin has two required Python files:

1. An argument-parser module in ~/.banip/plugins/parsers.
2. A command implementation module in ~/.banip/plugins/code.

Copy and adapt the included samples:

samples/plugins/foo.py
samples/plugins/foo_args.py

Existing plugins should keep the required task_runner(args) and load_command_args(sp) entry points unchanged. banip prints a deprecation warning when it discovers plugin code but continues loading valid plugins during the 2.x release line.

The patch command may already cover simple log-derived address lists: it accepts whitespace-delimited input and lets the user select the IP address field with --index. A future log-ingestion feature will be designed only after representative formats and extraction requirements are available.