Nuclex.Support/Source/Plugins/PluginRepository.cs
Markus Ewald b0e76b4800 Fixed 3 compiler warnings that were occurring in Nuclex.Support; minor improvements to the documentation
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#region CPL License
/*
Nuclex Framework
Copyright (C) 2002-2008 Nuclex Development Labs
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the IBM Common Public License as
published by the IBM Corporation; either version 1.0 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
IBM Common Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the IBM Common Public
License along with this library
*/
#endregion
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Reflection;
using System.IO;
namespace Nuclex.Support.Plugins {
/// <summary>Stores loaded plugins</summary>
/// <remarks>
/// This class manages a set of assemblies that have been dynamically loaded
/// as plugins. It usually is shared by multiple PluginHosts that handle
/// different interfaces of one plugin type.
/// </remarks>
public class PluginRepository {
/// <summary>Triggered whenever a new assembly is loaded into this repository</summary>
public event AssemblyLoadEventHandler AssemblyLoaded;
/// <summary>Initializes a new instance of the plugin repository</summary>
public PluginRepository() {
this.assemblies = new List<Assembly>();
}
/// <summary>Loads all plugins matching a wildcard specification</summary>
/// <param name="wildcard">Path of one or more plugins via wildcard</param>
/// <remarks>
/// This function always assumes that a plugin is optional. This means that
/// even when you specify a unique file name and a matching file is not found,
/// no exception will be raised and the error is silently ignored.
/// </remarks>
public void AddFiles(string wildcard) {
string directory = Path.GetDirectoryName(wildcard);
string search = Path.GetFileName(wildcard);
// We'll scan the specified directory for all files matching the specified
// wildcard. If only a single file is specified, only that file will match
// the supposed wildcard and everything works as expected
string[] assemblyFiles = Directory.GetFiles(directory, search);
foreach(string assemblyFile in assemblyFiles) {
// A lot of errors can occur when attempting to load an assembly...
try {
AddAssembly(Assembly.LoadFile(assemblyFile));
}
// File not found - Most likely a missing dependency of the assembly we
// attempted to load since the assembly itself has been found by the GetFiles() method
catch(DllNotFoundException) {
Console.WriteLine(
"Assembly '" + assemblyFile + "' or one of its dependencies is missing"
);
}
// Unauthorized acccess - Either the assembly is not trusted because it contains
// code that imposes a security risk on the system or a user rights problem
catch(UnauthorizedAccessException) {
Console.WriteLine(
"Not authorized to load assembly '" + assemblyFile + "', " +
"possible rights problem"
);
}
// Bad image format - This exception is often thrown when the assembly we
// attempted to load requires a different version of the .NET framework
catch(BadImageFormatException) {
Console.WriteLine(
"'" + assemblyFile +"' is not a .NET assembly, requires a different version " +
"of the .NET Runtime or does not support the current instruction set (x86/x64)"
);
}
// Unknown error - Our last resort is to show a default error message
catch(Exception exception) {
Console.WriteLine(
"Failed to load plugin assembly '" + assemblyFile + "': " + exception.Message
);
}
}
}
/// <summary>Adds the specified assembly to the repository</summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Also used internally, so any assembly that is to be put into the repository,
/// not matter how, wanders through this method
/// </remarks>
public void AddAssembly(Assembly assembly) {
this.assemblies.Add(assembly);
// Trigger event in case any subscribers have been registered
if(AssemblyLoaded != null) {
AssemblyLoaded(this, new AssemblyLoadEventArgs(assembly));
}
}
/// <summary>List of all loaded plugin assemblies in the repository</summary>
public List<Assembly> LoadedAssemblies {
get { return this.assemblies; }
}
/// <summary>Loaded plugin assemblies</summary>
private List<Assembly> assemblies;
}
} // namespace Nuclex.Support.Plugins