6B. Tell a host when a sub-plugin loaded, and when it did not by nikolaystrikhar · Pull Request #62 · stellarwp/plugin-absorber

nikolaystrikhar · 2026-08-24T12:02:56Z

What: adds {prefix}/plugin_absorber/loaded (Sub_Plugin) after the activation callback, and {prefix}/plugin_absorber/skipped (Sub_Plugin, string $reason) at each of the five gates in the load pass, with the reasons as Skip_Reason constants.

Usage:

add_action( 'give/plugin_absorber/loaded', 'my_recurring_bridge_init' );

add_action( 'give/plugin_absorber/skipped', function ( $sub_plugin, $reason ) {
    if ( Skip_Reason::ALREADY_LOADED === $reason ) { /* … */ }
}, 10, 2 );

Why this way:

Without these, a host guesses a priority and re-derives what the library knows. A defined() check on plugins_loaded cannot tell the bundled copy from the standalone — and a skip emitted nothing at all, so enabled => false, an unmet dependency_check and a should_load veto were indistinguishable from each other and from a clean load.

loaded fires behind the activation callback, not in front of it. On a first-ever load the tables a listener expects are the callback's work — and from in front, a throwing listener would skip the callback entirely and leave it retried, silently, for ever.

The reasons are a class of their own, not constants on Loader. They belong to the action rather than to the pass that fires it: Loader is bound by class name and a host may replace it outright, and a replacement announcing the same vocabulary should not have to import the implementation it swapped out to name one. Skip_Reason carries no is_valid(), unlike Conflict_Policy — the library only ever emits a reason, never receives one.

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New Features
- Added lifecycle notifications for successfully loaded and skipped components.
- Skipped notifications now include standardized reasons, such as disabled, already loaded, filtered, unavailable, or unmet dependencies.
- Missing files can now report both an error and a skipped status.
- Listener failures are isolated so they do not interrupt the overall loading process.
Documentation
- Updated the Actions documentation to explain load, skip, and failure notifications, including their behavior and supported skip reasons.

The error action tells a host what went wrong. It says nothing about the pass that went right, so there was still no way to run code when a sub-plugin loads short of hooking plugins_loaded at priority 7 and re-deriving the answer with defined() -- and no way at all to find out that a sub-plugin the host ships was turned away by a gate, since a skip is not a failure and never reported anything. Two more actions, named through Config::get_hook_name() like the first: loaded( Sub_Plugin ) and skipped( Sub_Plugin, string $reason ). loaded fires behind the activation callback. A listener is host code that reaches into the sub-plugin it was just told about, and on a first-ever load the tables and options that code expects are the callback's work -- and from in front of it, a throwing listener would skip the callback entirely and leave it to be retried, silently, on every request for ever. The five skip reasons are public const on Loader. Each names a gate in load() and nothing outside the load pass decides one, where Conflict_Policy earns a class of its own by carrying behaviour and by being read by the value object, the resolver and the host alike. Both run host code inside the per-sub-plugin try that has always guarded the should_load filter and the require itself, so a listener that throws costs its own sub-plugin and nothing behind it. The file gate announces down both channels. A bundled file that is not there is a build the host has to fix, which is what error carries, and a sub-plugin that is not going to be present, which is what anything watching skipped is counting. A host listening to both sees it twice, and docs/actions.md says so plainly rather than picking one.

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The loader now emits loaded and skipped actions. It exposes constants for five skip reasons, reports unreadable files through both error and skipped, isolates listener exceptions, and documents the lifecycle behavior.

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Lifecycle action reporting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Action contract and loaded flow `src/Loader.php`, `tests/unit/LoaderTest.php`, `docs/actions.md`, `README.md`	`Loader` defines skip-reason constants and dispatches `loaded` after activation. Tests cover notification contents, ordering, and listener exceptions. Documentation describes the action contract.
Skip reporting flow `src/Loader.php`, `tests/unit/LoaderTest.php`, `docs/actions.md`	`Loader` announces standardized reasons for disabled, already-loaded, dependency-failed, unreadable, and filtered sub-plugins. Tests cover each gate and dual reporting for missing files.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2f3bb

The new lifecycle hooks are otherwise mergeable, but the documentation should clarify that _doing_it_wrong() applies only to error or bootstrap-failure paths so hosts are not misled about normal hook behavior.

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`Loader` is bound by class name and a host may replace it outright; a replacement announcing the same vocabulary should not have to import the implementation it swapped out to name a reason. `Skip_Reason` sits at the root beside `Conflict_Policy` for the reason that one is not on `Conflict\Resolver`, and carries no behaviour, since the library only ever emits a reason.

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