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/api/dtos/models.go

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ type DataSource struct {
 	Id        int64      `json:"id"`
 	OrgId     int64      `json:"orgId"`
 	Name      string     `json:"name"`
-	Type      m.DsType   `json:"type"`
+	Type      string     `json:"type"`
 	Access    m.DsAccess `json:"access"`
 	Url       string     `json:"url"`
 	Password  string     `json:"password"`

pkg/api/frontendsettings.go

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/bus"
 	"github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/middleware"
 	m "github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/models"
+	"github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/plugins"
 	"github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/setting"
 )
 
@@ -38,6 +39,13 @@ func getFrontendSettingsMap(c *middleware.Context) (map[string]interface{}, erro
 			"url":  url,
 		}
 
+		meta, exists := plugins.DataSources[ds.Type]
+		if !exists {
+			//return nil, errors.New(fmt.Sprintf("Could not find plugin definition for data source: %v", ds.Type))
+		}
+
+		dsMap["meta"] = meta
+
 		if ds.IsDefault {
 			defaultDatasource = ds.Name
 		}