Proposal: Allow custom plugin path when installing

Describe the solution you’d like

Currently, when installing a plugin to dashboards via ./opensearch-dashboards-plugin-install file://<zip>, the plugin folder name is automatically created using the plugin id here, which is currently required to be camel case. This will create plugin folders looking like OpenSearch-Dashboards/plugins/<camelCasePluginId>. A camel case folder name doesn’t follow standard naming conventions within Dashboards. For example, preinstalled plugins are in snake case (see here).

I propose to either change the default created directory for installed plugins to follow the conventions of snake case, or add a field in opensearch_dashboards.json config files for plugins to allow setting a custom plugin path.

[mihirsoni]

If we can do it gradually with smaller PRs, to ensure no git history is lost as well functional tests passes on each one should be good, my only point s we can keep making progress, I remember kibana had earlier using - but changed to camelCase as part of new framework need to understand the reason why it is like that.

Overall my point was, not to add any scope for GA, we can do it as part of 1.1 and keep making progress. Just my thoughts if we have extra bandwidth to take care we’ll take in.

[dblock]

@mihirsoni Don’t feel strongly about it, your call!