Using October plugins that reference Rainlab\User

[Tony-S]

I'm wanting to use some October plugins that already reference e.g. Rainlab\User but of course I'm using Winter\User. Files have use statements e.g.:
use RainLab\User\Models\User;
use October\Rain\Scaffold...

Is there any way to use these plugins as-is with namespace aliasing so Winter\User and Winter\Storm are used? Obviously I can clone the plugins and adapt them but then I will loose all updates so I'm just checking whether aliasing can avoid that? I've read the docs but I don't see that it applies to this situation.

[RomainMazB]

Hi @Tony-S,
You should refer to this section of the documentation .

You can achieve this by creating a third plugin (I generally create a Custom.App plugin in all my projects) which would register the RainLab.User alias:

Config::registerNamespaceAlias('Winter.User', 'October.User');

Doing so, all reference to October\User namespace will now refer to the Winter\User one.

But this should already be done by the replace tag inside the Winter.User pluginDetails method here:
https://github.com/wintercms/wn-user-plugin/blob/main/Plugin.php#L29

[Tony-S]

That was very helpful thanks. I had already read that part of the docs but just wasn't clear on things. I thought there was already some aliasing in place and it was very useful seeing where it actually was. I will give this a try. thanks.

[LukeTowers]

@RomainMazB Config::registerNamespaceAlias('Winter.User', 'October.User'); will only register a namespace in the Config provider, i.e. Config::get('rainlab.user') will pull from winter.user.

[LukeTowers]

Namespace aliasing of October\Rain to Winter\Storm is handled by Winter\Storm itself, see https://github.com/wintercms/storm/blob/develop/src/Support/aliases.php. As for RainLab.User, the plugin replacement system handles aliasing namespaces, config keys, translations, settings, & backend navigation items and Winter.User flags that it replaces RainLab.User here: https://github.com/wintercms/wn-user-plugin/blob/main/Plugin.php#L29

All that to say, no; you probably don't need to do anything to register any aliasing if you're using Winter\Storm and / or Winter.User.

[Tony-S]

Thanks - that was also really useful.