org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon
Class SpoonPluginManager

java.lang.Object
  org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.SpoonPluginManager

public class SpoonPluginManager
extends Object

SpoonPluginManager is a singleton class which loads all SpoonPlugins from the SPOON_HOME/plugins/spoon directory. Spoon Plugins are able to listen for SpoonLifeCycleEvents and can register categorized XUL Overlays to be retrieved later. Spoon Plugins are deployed as directories under the SPOON_HOME/plugins/spoon directory. Each plugin must provide a build.xml as the root of it's directory and have any required jars under a "lib" directory. The plugin.xml format is Spring-based e.g.

Author:

nbaker

Method Summary

void	applyPluginsForContainer(String category, org.pentaho.ui.xul.XulDomContainer container)
static SpoonPluginManager	getInstance() Return the single instance of this class
List<SpoonPluginInterface>	getPlugins() Returns an unmodifiable list of all Spoon Plugins.
void	notifyLifecycleListeners(SpoonLifecycleListener.SpoonLifeCycleEvent evt) Notifies all registered SpoonLifecycleListeners of the given SpoonLifeCycleEvent.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

getInstance

public static SpoonPluginManager getInstance()

Return the single instance of this class

Returns:

SpoonPerspectiveManager

applyPluginsForContainer

public void applyPluginsForContainer(String category,
                                     org.pentaho.ui.xul.XulDomContainer container)
                              throws org.pentaho.ui.xul.XulException

Throws:

org.pentaho.ui.xul.XulException

getPlugins

public List<SpoonPluginInterface> getPlugins()

Returns an unmodifiable list of all Spoon Plugins.

Returns:

list of plugins

notifyLifecycleListeners

public void notifyLifecycleListeners(SpoonLifecycleListener.SpoonLifeCycleEvent evt)

Notifies all registered SpoonLifecycleListeners of the given SpoonLifeCycleEvent.

Parameters:

evt -