feat: enhance app registration and retrieval in SchemaRegistry and HttpDispatcher

Author: hotlong

packages/objectql/src/engine.ts

@@ -142,9 +142,15 @@ export class ObjectQL implements IDataEngine {
    * Register contribution (Manifest)
    */
   registerApp(manifest: any) {
-      const id = manifest.id;
+      const id = manifest.id || manifest.name;
       this.logger.debug('Registering app manifest', { id });
 
+      // Register the App Definition itself
+      if (manifest.name) {
+          SchemaRegistry.registerApp(manifest);
+          this.logger.debug('Registered App Definition', { app: manifest.name });
+      }
+
       // Register objects
       if (manifest.objects) {
           if (Array.isArray(manifest.objects)) {

packages/objectql/src/registry.ts

@@ -110,6 +110,21 @@ export class SchemaRegistry {
     return this.listItems<ServiceObject>('object');
   }
 
+  /**
+   * App Helpers
+   */
+  static registerApp(app: any) {
+    this.registerItem('app', app, 'name');
+  }
+
+  static getApp(name: string): any {
+    return this.getItem('app', name);
+  }
+
+  static getAllApps(): any[] {
+    return this.listItems('app');
+  }
+
   /**
    * Plugin Helpers
    */

packages/runtime/src/http-dispatcher.ts

@@ -191,6 +191,16 @@ export class HttpDispatcher {
         if (parts.length === 1) {
             const typeOrName = parts[0];
 
+            // Special handling for common pluralized types mapping to protocol
+            if (['apps', 'plugins'].includes(typeOrName)) {
+                const singularType = typeOrName.slice(0, -1);
+                const protocol = this.kernel?.context?.getService ? this.kernel.context.getService('protocol') : null;
+                if (protocol && typeof protocol.getMetaItems === 'function') {
+                     const data = await protocol.getMetaItems({ type: singularType });
+                     return { handled: true, response: this.success(data) };
+                }
+            }
+
             // Heuristic: if it maps to a known type, list it. Else treat as object name.
             if (['objects', 'apps', 'plugins'].includes(typeOrName)) {
                  if (typeOrName === 'objects') {