net.sourceforge.blogentis.plugins
Class BlogPluginService

java.lang.Object
  net.sourceforge.blogentis.plugins.BlogPluginService

public class BlogPluginService

extends java.lang.Object

Author:

abas

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

PLUGIN_LIST

Constructor Summary

BlogPluginService()

Method Summary

static void	deregisterExtensionPoint(Blog blog, IBlogExtensionPoint point) Remove a blog-specific extension point
static void	deregisterExtensionPoint(IExtensionPoint point) Remove a global extension point.
static java.util.Iterator	getExtensionPoints(Blog blog) Get the list of extension points supported by a blog.
static IPluginService	getInstance()
static java.util.Iterator	getPlugins() List the plugins in the order of their definition.
static IBlogExtensionPoint	locateExtensionPoint(Blog blog, java.lang.Class name) Locate an extension point that extends/implements the specified class.
static IExtensionPoint	locateExtensionPoint(java.lang.Class name) Locate a global extension point that extends/implements the specified class.
static void	registerExtensionPoint(Blog blog, IBlogExtensionPoint point) Register a blog-specific extension point.
static void	registerExtensionPoint(IExtensionPoint point) Register a global extension point.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

PLUGIN_LIST

public static final java.lang.String PLUGIN_LIST

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

BlogPluginService

public BlogPluginService()

Method Detail

getInstance

public static IPluginService getInstance()

getPlugins

public static java.util.Iterator getPlugins()

List the plugins in the order of their definition.

Returns:

an iterator that returns IPlugin

registerExtensionPoint

public static void registerExtensionPoint(IExtensionPoint point)

Register a global extension point.

Parameters:

point - the global extension point to register.

deregisterExtensionPoint

public static void deregisterExtensionPoint(IExtensionPoint point)

Remove a global extension point.

Parameters:

point - the extension point to remove.

registerExtensionPoint

public static void registerExtensionPoint(Blog blog,
                                          IBlogExtensionPoint point)

Register a blog-specific extension point.

Parameters:

blog - the blog that the extension point will apply.

point - the extension point that will be registered.

deregisterExtensionPoint

public static void deregisterExtensionPoint(Blog blog,
                                            IBlogExtensionPoint point)

Remove a blog-specific extension point

Parameters:

blog - the blog that should contain the extension point.

point - the extension point to remove.

locateExtensionPoint

public static IExtensionPoint locateExtensionPoint(java.lang.Class name)

Locate a global extension point that extends/implements the specified class.

Parameters:

name -

Returns:

a global extension point instance that is castable to the specified class.

locateExtensionPoint

public static IBlogExtensionPoint locateExtensionPoint(Blog blog,
                                                       java.lang.Class name)

Locate an extension point that extends/implements the specified class.

Parameters:

blog - the blog to which the extension point will belong.

name -

Returns:

the extension point instance that is castable to the specified class.

getExtensionPoints

public static java.util.Iterator getExtensionPoints(Blog blog)

Get the list of extension points supported by a blog.

Parameters:

blog - the blog whose extension points to list.

Returns:

an Iterator over the extension points.