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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# plugins.py
+# Copyright (C) 2015 LEAP
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+"""
+Twisted plugins leap utilities.
+"""
+import os.path
+
+from twisted.plugin import getPlugins
+
+from leap.common.config import get_path_prefix
+
+# A whitelist of modules from where to collect plugins dynamically.
+# For the moment restricted to leap namespace, but the idea is that we can pass
+# other "trusted" modules as options to the initialization of soledad.
+
+# TODO discover all the namespace automagically
+
+PLUGGABLE_LEAP_MODULES = ('mail', 'keymanager')
+
+_preffix = get_path_prefix()
+rc_file = os.path.join(_preffix, "leap", "leap.cfg")
+
+
+def _get_extra_pluggable_modules():
+    import ConfigParser
+    config = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()
+    config.read(rc_file)
+    try:
+        modules = eval(
+            config.get('plugins', 'extra_pluggable_modules'), {}, {})
+    except (ConfigParser.NoSectionError, ConfigParser.NoOptionError,
+            ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError):
+        modules = []
+    return modules
+
+if os.path.isfile(rc_file):
+    # TODO in the case of being called from the standalone client,
+    # we should pass the flag in some other way.
+    EXTRA_PLUGGABLE_MODULES = _get_extra_pluggable_modules()
+else:
+    EXTRA_PLUGGABLE_MODULES = []
+
+
+def collect_plugins(interface):
+    """
+    Traverse a whitelist of modules and collect all the plugins that implement
+    the passed interface.
+    """
+    plugins = []
+    for namespace in PLUGGABLE_LEAP_MODULES:
+        try:
+            module = __import__('leap.%s.plugins' % namespace, fromlist='.')
+            plugins = plugins + list(getPlugins(interface, module))
+        except ImportError:
+            pass
+    for namespace in EXTRA_PLUGGABLE_MODULES:
+        try:
+            module = __import__('%s.plugins' % namespace, fromlist='.')
+            plugins = plugins + list(getPlugins(interface, module))
+        except ImportError:
+            pass
+    return plugins