[Opensim-dev] Module/Plugin Loading

[Michael Wright]

Yes those are great if we can acheive them. I'm just not sure how we create a "clean" wrapper that is independant of Mono.addins, as it uses various attributes to define the interfaces and plugins (TypeExtensionPoint, Extension, etc) . So those classes need references to mono.addins. 

Like for example our current IApplicationPlugin:

using Mono.Addins;

[assembly : AddinRoot("OpenSim", "0.5")]

namespace OpenSim
{
    [TypeExtensionPoint("/OpenSim/Startup")]
    public interface IApplicationPlugin
    {
        void Initialise(OpenSimBase openSim);
        void Close();
    }
}

and to implement a Application plugin:

assembly : Addin]
[assembly : AddinDependency("OpenSim", "0.5")]
[assembly : AddinDependency("RegionProxy", "0.1")]

namespace OpenSim.ApplicationPlugins.LoadBalancer
{
    [Extension("/OpenSim/Startup")]
    public class LoadBalancerPlugin : IApplicationPlugin
    {


So if we had more classes that used were loaded by mono.addins, we would need the interfaces to have a TypeExtensionPoint attribute and the implementations to have the Extension. Tthe only other way I saw for Mono.addings to load plugins without those attributes, is by using its xml manifest files. And one of our requirements is listed as that we don't use third party config files.

I most likely haven't dug deep enough into mono.addins and there could well be a method to do cut out the attributes and not require manifest files. But anyway my point is that I believe a implied effect of those requirements is that we don't have references to Mono.addins in the core opensim assemblys. (OpenSim.Framework.X , etc) 

Dr Scofield <DrScofield at xyzzyxyzzy.net> wrote: Stefan Andersson wrote:
> Just to get this straight, is what we're saying
>  
> 1) Yes, we will have a common loader architecture
> 2) Yes, it will be implemented as a set of interfaces
> 3) Yes, we will create one implementation as a wrapper around Mono.Addins
> 4) Yes, we will aim at having a common setup file structure for 
> OpenSim, not depend on lots of different third-party components config.
>
> That sounds excellent to me.
+1
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan Andersson
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:16:34 -0400
> > From: sean at dague.net
> > To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> > Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Module/Plugin Loading
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 03:12:45PM +0100, Melanie wrote:
> > > I believe that we should use a plugin loader that allows us to
> > > configure plugin loading completely within our own .ini files. I
> > > think that a requirement to tweak complex XML based mono/.NET config
> > > files to get a plugin loaded will put running OpenSim out fo reach
> > > of many users.
> > >
> > > That said, I'm all for a standardized way to load a plugin. I just
> > > think it shouldn't be required to edit conifg files outside of
> > > OpenSim's own.
> >
> > +1. I think that ryan's plugin loader approach will give us that (at
> > least from what I've seen in his patch and description). I'm looking
> > forward to that work.
> >
> > -Sean
> >
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