Allow plugins to define settings

[fpottbaecker]

Issue Kind

Brand new capability

Description

Some plugins rely on settings which should not necessarily be part of the pyproject.toml, e.g. pypi-mirror (ref. #5958).

Currently settings cannot be configured using poetry config, because they do not exist (in the hardcoded list of settings).

There should be an interface to define plugin settings with default values and read them at runtime. Users should be able to configure these using poetry config.

They might be scoped to plugins.[plugin_name].[setting_key], where plugin_name is the name of the plugin package or poetry.(application.)plugin entrypoint.

Maybe they can be defined and read with something like this:

class SettingsPlugin(Plugin):
    def activate(self, poetry: Poetry, io: IO):
        self.config = poetry.config.register_plugin(self)
        #...
        self.config.define_setting("KEY", DEFAULT, validator, normalizer)
        #...
        value = self.config.get("KEY")

Impact

Providing this capability enables the use of machine/user global plugin settings (e.g. a private PyPi mirror with poetry-plugin-pypi-mirror) with a "native" configuration interface (poetry config).

Workarounds

Plugin settings can be manually added to the relevant config files poetry.toml or the users config.toml.
Validation of entered values has to be handled by each plugin, normalization must be done manually by the user.

[Secrus]

This is on the roadmap for the plugin API.