Plugins: Support changing plugin IDs (hardcoded) (#67867)

pkg/api/frontendsettings.go

@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ func (hs *HTTPServer) getFrontendSettings(c *contextmodel.ReqContext) (*dtos.Fro
 		panels[panel.ID] = plugins.PanelDTO{
 			ID:              panel.ID,
 			Name:            panel.Name,
+			Alias:           panel.Alias,
 			Info:            panel.Info,
 			Module:          panel.Module,
 			BaseURL:         panel.BaseURL,
@@ -318,6 +319,7 @@ func (hs *HTTPServer) getFSDataSources(c *contextmodel.ReqContext, availablePlug
 			continue
 		}
 		plugin := ap.Plugin
+		dsDTO.Type = plugin.ID
 		dsDTO.Preload = plugin.Preload
 		dsDTO.Module = plugin.Module
 		dsDTO.PluginMeta = &plugins.PluginMetaDTO{
@@ -479,10 +481,15 @@ type availablePluginDTO struct {
 type AvailablePlugins map[plugins.Type]map[string]*availablePluginDTO
 
 func (ap AvailablePlugins) Get(pluginType plugins.Type, pluginID string) (*availablePluginDTO, bool) {
-	if _, exists := ap[pluginType][pluginID]; exists {
-		return ap[pluginType][pluginID], true
+	p, exists := ap[pluginType][pluginID]
+	if exists {
+		return p, true
+	}
+	for _, p = range ap[pluginType] {
+		if p.Plugin.ID == pluginID || p.Plugin.Alias == pluginID {
+			return p, true
+		}
 	}
-
 	return nil, false
 }