Refactored plugin settings handling for maintainability (#515)

Author: SommerEngineering

app/MindWork AI Studio/Settings/SettingsManager.cs

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 using System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis;
+using System.Linq.Expressions;
 using System.Text.Json;
 
 using AIStudio.Provider;
@@ -347,4 +348,21 @@ public ConfidenceLevel GetConfiguredConfidenceLevel(LLMProviders llmProvider)
                 return ConfidenceLevel.UNKNOWN;
         }
     }
+
+    public static string ToSettingName<T>(Expression<Func<T, object>> propertyExpression)
+    {
+        MemberExpression? memberExpr;
+
+        // Handle the case where the expression is a unary expression (e.g., when using Convert):
+        if (propertyExpression.Body is UnaryExpression { NodeType: ExpressionType.Convert } unaryExpr)
+            memberExpr = unaryExpr.Operand as MemberExpression;
+        else
+            memberExpr = propertyExpression.Body as MemberExpression;
+
+        if (memberExpr is null)
+            throw new ArgumentException("Expression must be a property access", nameof(propertyExpression));
+
+        // Return the full name of the property, including the class name:
+        return $"{typeof(T).Name}.{memberExpr.Member.Name}";
+    }
 }

app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/PluginSystem/PluginConfiguration.cs

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ private bool TryProcessConfiguration(out string message)
             return false;
         }
 
-        if (settingsTable.TryGetValue("DataApp.UpdateBehavior", out var updateBehaviorValue) && updateBehaviorValue.TryRead<string>(out var updateBehaviorText) && Enum.TryParse<UpdateBehavior>(updateBehaviorText, true, out var updateBehavior))
+        if (settingsTable.TryGetValue(SettingsManager.ToSettingName<DataApp>(x => x.UpdateBehavior), out var updateBehaviorValue) && updateBehaviorValue.TryRead<string>(out var updateBehaviorText) && Enum.TryParse<UpdateBehavior>(updateBehaviorText, true, out var updateBehavior))
         {
             SETTINGS_LOCKER.Register<DataApp>(x => x.UpdateBehavior, this.Id);
             SETTINGS_MANAGER.ConfigurationData.App.UpdateBehavior = updateBehavior;

app/MindWork AI Studio/wwwroot/changelog/v0.9.49.md

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 - Added a library by Nils Kruthoff (`nilskruthoff`) that allows AI Studio to read PowerPoint files. This feature is not yet available in the UI, but it will soon be available. Thanks, Nils, for that great contribution.
 - Improved the loading of some components that require data fetching, resulting in a more responsive UI.
 - Improved some awkward phrasings in English and German.
+- Improved the implementation of configuration plugins to enhance long-term maintainability.
 - Changed the timestamp display to use the local datetime format for the chats and assistants.
 - Fixed a bug when editing data sources that caused the selected retrieval process of an ERI data source to not load correctly.
 - Upgraded to Rust 1.88.0.