Let Devs use InsertService LoadPackageAsset in Plugins and Command bar

[RuizuKun_Dev (Kitsune)]

continuing the discussion from here:

game:GetObjects and InsertService:LoadAsset do not create a package link when inserting packages

The methods game:GetObjects and Insert:LoadAsset do not create the associated PackageLink when inserting a package through these methods. It looks like this issue is already known by the existence of the locked InsertService:LoadPackageAssetAsync which is likely what the toolbox uses Expected behavior The PackageLink to be created when inserting a package through this method.

Proposal

LoadPackageAsset and LoadPackageAssetAsync already exist, make it PluginSecurity instead of RobloxScriptSecurity

Use Case

I have a Package Installer Plugin and it had to use a work around to make it work properly with the PackageLink, and it is too difficult to manage for my workflow

I use VS Code and Rojo however rojo build doesn’t support creating PackageLink so I can’t use it with AssetService:CreateAssetVersionAsync and Open Cloud Luau tasks and would always have to do this manually which defeats the point of these automations

How would it solve my problem

If we can use LoadPackageAssetAsync I’d have an easier time managing my Package and Plugin

It would enable automatic publishing workflow which is the main point of Open Cloud API

Reference

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[Cure_Carbon]

I am trying to make a plugin which sets up a template framework for my game with all the modules I always use. These modules are packages. Currently, using :LoadAsset inserts these modules without the package link, meaning I cannot easily extend the functionality of these modules such that future projects can see these changes

I would like a method to load in packages via plugin so I do not have to manually find, insert and update packages from the toolbox/asset manager manually if I wish to change the master copy of a module I inserted via plugin.

[metatablecatmaid (metatablecat)]

Its always confused me why the PackageLink isn’t preserved by LoadAsset given that a PackageLink is a serializable object (save a package as an RBXMX and there he is).

As stated in the bug post, I think plugin interactions with packages would be better with a whole dedicated service rather than bandaiding a fix like this, since theres other package tasks that would make sense for a plugin to utilise.