/* * Copyright (C) 2012-2014 Tobias Brunner * Copyright (C) 2007 Martin Willi * Hochschule fuer Technik Rapperswil * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the * Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your * option) any later version. See . * * This program 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 GNU General Public License * for more details. */ /** * @defgroup plugin_loader plugin_loader * @{ @ingroup plugins */ #ifndef PLUGIN_LOADER_H_ #define PLUGIN_LOADER_H_ typedef struct plugin_loader_t plugin_loader_t; #include #include /* to avoid circular references we can't include plugin_feature.h */ struct plugin_feature_t; /** * The plugin_loader loads plugins from a directory and initializes them */ struct plugin_loader_t { /** * Add static plugin features, not loaded via plugins. * * Similar to features provided by plugins they are evaluated during load(), * and unloaded when unload() is called. * * If critical is TRUE load() will fail if any of the added features could * not be loaded. * * If a reload callback function is given, it gets invoked for the * registered feature set when reload() is invoked on the plugin_loader. * * @note The name should be unique otherwise a plugin with the same name is * not loaded. * * @param name name of the component adding the features * @param features array of plugin features * @param count number of features in the array * @param critical TRUE if the features are critical * @param reload feature reload callback, or NULL * @param reload_data user data to pass to reload callback */ void (*add_static_features) (plugin_loader_t *this, const char *name, struct plugin_feature_t *features, int count, bool critical, bool (*reload)(void*), void *reload_data); /** * Load a list of plugins. * * Each plugin in list may have an ending exclamation mark (!) to mark it * as a critical plugin. If loading a critical plugin fails, plugin loading * is aborted and FALSE is returned. * * Additional paths can be added with add_path(), these will be searched * for the plugins first, in the order they were added, then the default * path follows. * * If \.load_modular is enabled (where \ is lib->ns) the plugins to * load are determined via a load option in their respective plugin config * section e.g. \.plugins.\.load = . * The oder is determined by the configured priority. If two plugins have * the same priority the order as seen in list is preserved. Plugins not * found in list are loaded first, in alphabetical order. * * @note Even though this method could be called multiple times this is * currently not really supported in regards to plugin features and their * dependencies (in particular soft dependencies). * * @param list space separated list of plugins to load * @return TRUE if all critical plugins loaded successfully */ bool (*load)(plugin_loader_t *this, char *list); /** * Add an additional search path for plugins. * * These will be searched in the order they were added. * * @param path path containing loadable plugins */ void (*add_path)(plugin_loader_t *this, char *path); /** * Reload the configuration of one or multiple plugins. * * @param space separated plugin names to reload, NULL for all * @return number of plugins that did support reloading */ u_int (*reload)(plugin_loader_t *this, char *list); /** * Unload all loaded plugins. */ void (*unload)(plugin_loader_t *this); /** * Create an enumerator over all loaded plugins. * * In addition to the plugin, the enumerator optionally provides a list of * pointers to plugin features currently loaded. * This list has to be destroyed. * * @return enumerator over plugin_t*, linked_list_t* */ enumerator_t* (*create_plugin_enumerator)(plugin_loader_t *this); /** * Check if the given feature is available and loaded. * * @param feature feature to check * @return TRUE if feature available */ bool (*has_feature)(plugin_loader_t *this, struct plugin_feature_t feature); /** * Get a simple list the names of all loaded plugins. * * The function returns internal data, do not free. * * @return list of the names of all loaded plugins */ char* (*loaded_plugins)(plugin_loader_t *this); /** * Log status about loaded plugins and features. * * @param level log level to use */ void (*status)(plugin_loader_t *this, level_t level); /** * Unload loaded plugins, destroy plugin_loader instance. */ void (*destroy)(plugin_loader_t *this); }; /** * Create a plugin_loader instance. * * @return plugin loader instance */ plugin_loader_t *plugin_loader_create(); /** * Convenience function to add plugin directories for the given plugins within * the given base directory according to the conventions in the src/build tree. * * @param basedir base directory * @param plugins space separated list of plugins */ void plugin_loader_add_plugindirs(char *basedir, char *plugins); #ifdef STATIC_PLUGIN_CONSTRUCTORS /** * Register a plugin constructor in case of static builds. * * @param name name of the plugin * @param constructor constructor to register (set to NULL to unregister) */ void plugin_constructor_register(char *name, void *constructor); #endif #endif /** PLUGIN_LOADER_H_ @}*/