Package org.pentaho.platform.plugin.services.pluginmgr

Class PluginUtil

java.lang.Object

org.pentaho.platform.plugin.services.pluginmgr.PluginUtil

public class PluginUtil
extends Object

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
PluginUtil()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static ClassLoader	getClassLoaderForService(String path)	If the service specified by serviceId is supplied by a plugin, the ClassLoader used to load classes for the associated plugin is returned.
static String	getPluginIdFromPath(String path)	If the service specified by serviceId is supplied by a plugin, plugin id is returned.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

PluginUtil

public PluginUtil()

Method Details

getClassLoaderForService

public static ClassLoader getClassLoaderForService(String path)

If the service specified by serviceId is supplied by a plugin, the ClassLoader used to load classes for the associated plugin is returned. This is a handy method to use if you want to find resources associated with a particular (plugin-supplied) service, such as a GWT serialization policy file, properties files, etc. If the service was not supplied by a plugin, then null is returned.

Parameters:

path - a path to a plugin resource

Returns:

the ClassLoader that serves the (plugin-supplied) service, or null if the service was not plugin-supplied or the plugin manager cannot identify the service.

getPluginIdFromPath

public static String getPluginIdFromPath(String path)

If the service specified by serviceId is supplied by a plugin, plugin id is returned.

Parameters:

path - a path to a plugin resource

Returns:

the Id of the plugin