Button to force plugin reloading about webgoat HOT 11 CLOSED

Working on this, created a new endpoint for reloading plugins. We need to decide how we integrate this within the GUI:

• Button?
• Do we want to reload all the lessons or reload a specific lesson?

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As discussed on the slack channel: we will reload all plugins, and make it available with reload=true url parameter or just a WebGoat/…/reload. We can wire it up later.

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You can now reload plugins with a call to a separate endpoint this endpoint. We can integrate this in the UI with a button in a later version

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I am not aware of any "developer controls" where such a button would be suitable in webgoat at the moment, is there one? If not, perhaps it could be useful to have some kind of "Developer Controls/Dashboard" that could be toggled on/off.

Such controls could be buttons/links to performing actions like reloading plugins and details about what is going on in the system. Here is a quick mock of what it could look like:

The concept can easily be extended to allow more controls like selecting which plugin to reload or any other system action the developer might want to perform (clearing cookies, checking state, etc.).

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@span: you can also add #96 which was added to highlight the text on a page in order to show which one is already in the i18n bundle

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Sounds good to me. I can put something together unless @mayhew64 has already started on this or has other ideas?

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I have not started anything on the highlighting. Feel free to put something together.

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Just wanted to let you know I have picked up work on this again and hope to have something after this week (which is way to busy).

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So I have most of the wiring in place now but I would like #218 to be fixed so see if re-routing to start.mvc is a good alternative to refresing the tab after reloading plugins and labels.

Ideally I suppose re-routing to whatever page the user was on when clicking reload would be great but that requires #194 to be in place.

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I am currently struggling to get the reload of the lessons to actually work. The output from the tomcat is claiming everything is reloaded but I don't see any GUI updates nor updates on for example cookie name in the "spoof auth cookie" lesson.

Will keep investigating what is going on here.

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Closing, since the release of version 8.0 we no longer actively support version 7.1.

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