org.pentaho.platform.plugin.services.pluginmgr
Class SystemPathXmlPluginProvider

java.lang.Object
  org.pentaho.platform.plugin.services.pluginmgr.SystemPathXmlPluginProvider

All Implemented Interfaces:

IPluginProvider

Direct Known Subclasses:

FileSystemXmlPluginProvider

public class SystemPathXmlPluginProvider
extends Object
implements IPluginProvider

An implmentation of IPluginProvider that searches for plugin.xml files in the Pentaho system path and instantiates IPlatformPlugins from the information in those files.

Author:

aphillips

Constructor Summary

SystemPathXmlPluginProvider()

Method Summary

List<IPlatformPlugin>

getPlugins(IPentahoSession session) Gets the list of plugins that this provider class has discovered.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

SystemPathXmlPluginProvider

public SystemPathXmlPluginProvider()

Method Detail

getPlugins

public List<IPlatformPlugin> getPlugins(IPentahoSession session)
                                 throws PlatformPluginRegistrationException

Gets the list of plugins that this provider class has discovered.

Specified by:

getPlugins in interface IPluginProvider

Parameters:

session - the current session

Returns:

an read-only list of plugins

Throws:

PlatformPluginRegistrationException - if there is a problem preventing the impl from looking for plugins

See Also:

IPluginProvider#getPlugins()