org.scijava.plugin
Class DefaultPluginFinder

java.lang.Object
  org.scijava.plugin.DefaultPluginFinder

All Implemented Interfaces:

PluginFinder

public class DefaultPluginFinder
extends Object
implements PluginFinder

Default SciJava plugin discovery mechanism.

It works by scanning the classpath for Plugin annotations previously indexed by scijava-common itself.

Author:

Curtis Rueden

Constructor Summary

DefaultPluginFinder()

DefaultPluginFinder(ClassLoader classLoader)

Method Summary

HashMap<String,Throwable>

findPlugins(List<PluginInfo<?>> plugins) Populates the given list with all available SciJava plugins.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

DefaultPluginFinder

public DefaultPluginFinder()

DefaultPluginFinder

public DefaultPluginFinder(ClassLoader classLoader)

Method Detail

findPlugins

public HashMap<String,Throwable> findPlugins(List<PluginInfo<?>> plugins)

Description copied from interface: PluginFinder

Populates the given list with all available SciJava plugins.

Specified by:

findPlugins in interface PluginFinder

Returns:

A table of exceptions which occurred during plugin discovery. Keys correspond to plugin name in some fashion (e.g., a class name), while values correspond to the exception which occurred when attempting to create the associated PluginInfo object.