Re: [Bodington-developers] Plugin interface

[Alistair Y. <ali...@sm...>]

> Instantiation of the Plugin
at the moment, one instance per template with shared functionality in  
that instance. It's in it's infancy just now so that's likely to change.

> Initialisation
at first instantiation

> Calls out from plugin
uses some bod methods to get current user

> Calls into the plugin
> Does your plugin have multiple functionality?
no

> Does it use parameters to its method calls?
no

It's functionality is implied by it's interface contract - it's an  
HTMLPlugin so that's all it does, outputs HTML. Facility just calls  
it's run() method.

It connects to a database to get the info to generate the HTML.

Alistair

On 23 Mar 2006, at 12:11, Jon Maber wrote:

> Alistair,
>
> could you give a rough description of what logic is contained in  
> your My Modules plugin?
>
> So far as I can see, I think your My Modules plugin idea is  
> perfectly reasonable. However, I do think there are some details of  
> implementation that need to be sorted out so I have some questions.
>
> 1) Instantiation of the Plugin.
> One instance per Bodington web app?
> One instance per resource?
> One instance per template?
> One instance per user session?
>
> 2) Initialisation.
> Instantiated when web app initialises?
> Instantiated when first accessed by template?
>
> 3) Calls out from plugin
> Does the plugin use just standard runtime packages or does it hook  
> into Bodington classes? For example?
>
> 4) Calls into the plugin.
> Does your plugin have multiple functionality?
> Does it use parameters to its method calls?
>
>
> Jon
>
>
>
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