14731 plugins catalog

[arthanson]

Fixes: #14731

Changed from the design of cards to a standard table as per comments. Held off on writing tests as it is info display only and it sounds like we want to change to cards fairly soon which would require re-writing a lot of the tests. We could mock the API and check the display based on that, but not sure what really to test beyond that.

[jeffgdotorg]

The screenshots look great, and I'm finally getting around to checking out the branch and taking it for a spin.

At the moment, the plugins catalog is bombing out for me with:

<class 'ValueError'>

Invalid isoformat string: '2024-01-10T18:11:37.268905Z'

Python version: 3.10.12
NetBox version: 4.1.0-dev
Plugins: None installed

That date expression is the value of the created_at property for the first plugin in the list returned from the API.

[jeremystretch]

Seems like it would be a lot cleaner (and easier) to list the available plugins in a table rather than in the grid layout pictured above. A table provides more efficient use of space and enables easy ordering by column. It would also make it much easier to compare the installed version of each plugin to its latest release.

[jeffgdotorg]

I'm fine with a table layout for the initial implementation. We'll revisit the card / grid design down the road, during or after the 4.1 beta period.

[jeremystretch]

Could you please add some basic tests to validate the API processing and views?

[jeffgdotorg]

Nice progress here. BTW the Markdown rendering in plugin.description_short is now working as expected.

[arthanson]

@jeffgdotorg Detail View changed quite a bit from Jeremy's feedback - please take a re-review:

[jeffgdotorg]

Just a couple of small asks here. Otherwise looks good.

[jeffgdotorg]

A couple additional flags from talking through this PR with @natm

[arthanson]

Added proxy header and user-agent string to API call.

[jeremystretch]

Thanks @arthanson!