Package com.google.gerrit.server.plugins

Interface ServerPluginProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

JarPluginProvider

public interface ServerPluginProvider

Provider of one Server plugin from one external file

Allows to load one plugin from one external file or one directory by declaring the ability to handle it.

In order to load multiple files into a single plugin, group them into a directory tree and then load the directory root as a single plugin.

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Interface	Description
static class	ServerPluginProvider.PluginDescription	Descriptor of the Plugin that ServerPluginProvider has to load.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
ServerPlugin	get(Path srcPath, org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.file.FileSnapshot snapshot, ServerPluginProvider.PluginDescription pluginDescriptor)	Loads an external file or directory into a Server plugin.
String	getPluginName(Path srcPath)	Returns the plugin name of an external file or directory
String	getProviderPluginName()	Returns the plugin name of this provider.
boolean	handles(Path srcPath)	Declares the availability to manage an external file or directory

Method Detail

handles

boolean handles(Path srcPath)

Declares the availability to manage an external file or directory

Parameters:

srcPath - the external file or directory

Returns:

true if file or directory can be loaded into a Server Plugin

getPluginName

String getPluginName(Path srcPath)

Returns the plugin name of an external file or directory

Should be called only if handles(srcFile) returns true and thus srcFile is a supported plugin format. An IllegalArgumentException is thrown otherwise as srcFile is not a valid file format for extracting its plugin name.

Parameters:

srcPath - external file or directory

Returns:

plugin name

get

ServerPlugin get(Path srcPath,
                 org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.file.FileSnapshot snapshot,
                 ServerPluginProvider.PluginDescription pluginDescriptor)
          throws InvalidPluginException

Loads an external file or directory into a Server plugin.

Should be called only if handles(srcFile) returns true and thus srcFile is a supported plugin format. An IllegalArgumentException is thrown otherwise as srcFile is not a valid file format for extracting its plugin name.

Parameters:

srcPath - external file or directory

snapshot - snapshot of the external file

pluginDescriptor - descriptor of the ServerPlugin to load

Throws:

InvalidPluginException - if plugin is supposed to be handled but cannot be loaded for any other reason

getProviderPluginName

String getProviderPluginName()

Returns the plugin name of this provider.

Allows to identify which plugin provided the current ServerPluginProvider by returning the plugin name. Helpful for troubleshooting plugin loading problems.

Returns:

plugin name of this provider