Trying to write new plugin, need API to get gcode

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Hi devs,

I'm currently writing on a Plugin that wraps the STL-Tweaker (autorotation module) and the Slic3r and it should be external.
https://github.com/ChristophSchranz/Octoprint-PrePrintService (no doc yet)

It works, but I still have problems to handle the gcode_name path. I look for an API to fetch the name from the slic3r html, with the profile it runs with:
profile_dict, display_name, description = self._load_profile(profile_path)
print(display_name)

At the moment I send a request.post to the external server, that processes the file and request.post back the gcode (with a default name now). Afterwards a second .gco-file is created, which is a one-liner..
Is there a smoother way to only return a single file that has the correct name?

Best regards,
Chris

2

You'll want to use the filemanager.preprocessor hook documented here. I use it in my CustomBackground plugin to move the uploaded image file into a different directory, as seen in the link here. Hopefully that helps you out.

3

Thank you for your answer.
Unfortunately not. My preprocessing functionality is for autorotating and slicing. My problem is that I can't extract the selected name of the future machinecode. The problem lies in the filemanager/init(), where the real destinal_path is overwritten by a random one:

		f = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=".gco", delete=False) # Why?????
		temp_path = f.name

As a result, the name I get is of the form "tmpuHMJ2L.gco" and I have to name the gcode manually by a static pattern.
Is there any workaround to get the desired name from the webinterface.

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Oh, then you should look into the event hooks maybe. Specifically file-handling event with the EventHandlerPlugin mixin. Something like...

def on_event(self, event, payload):
	if event == "FileAdded":
		# do work using payload.path here
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Thank you very much! :slight_smile:

I could retrieve the filename with:

	# EventPlugin
	def on_event(self, event, payload):
		if event == "SlicingStarted":
			self.machinecode_name = payload.get("gcode", None)