A lot of work on backend plugin model for frontend components, right now for data sources, will enable dropin plugins for data sources and panels, #1472

pkg/cmd/datasource.go

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ func createDataSource(c *cli.Context) {
 		OrgId:     orgId,
 		Name:      ds,
 		Url:       url,
-		Type:      m.DsType(dsType),
+		Type:      dsType,
 		Access:    m.DsAccess(dsAccess),
 		IsDefault: dsDefault,
 	}

pkg/cmd/web.go

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/api"
 	"github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/log"
 	"github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/middleware"
+	"github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/plugins"
 	"github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/services/eventpublisher"
 	"github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/setting"
 	"github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/social"
@@ -74,6 +75,7 @@ func runWeb(c *cli.Context) {
 
 	social.NewOAuthService()
 	eventpublisher.Init()
+	plugins.Init()
 
 	var err error
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