Manifest spec
What a manifest will be
Section titled “What a manifest will be”A manifest is how a marketplace module declares itself to Adminium: the tables it needs, the pages it contributes, the roles it defines, and the settings it exposes. Adminium validates it, installs it, and the module’s pages appear in the sidebar.
The format is JSON, validated by a published JSON Schema, carrying an integer
manifestVersion — the same versioning discipline as the
schema IR, for the same reason: a document
that declares a version keeps working when the format grows.
Why it is not here yet
Section titled “Why it is not here yet”The manifest spec is frozen when the marketplace ships, not before. Freezing a contract that nothing has implemented against produces a contract that is wrong in ways nobody has discovered.
What exists today
Section titled “What exists today”If you want to move an Adminium configuration between instances now, that is
export-zip — a different thing, doing a different job:
Export & restore.
If you want the schema format Adminium’s import pipeline speaks today, that is the IR, and it is real, published, and versioned: The JSON IR.