PluginLibraryLoader.h

/*
 *
 * This file is part of Tulip (www.tulip-software.org)
 *
 * Authors: David Auber and the Tulip development Team
 * from LaBRI, University of Bordeaux
 *
 * Tulip is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3
 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * Tulip 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.
 *
 */
///@cond DOXYGEN_HIDDEN

#ifndef PLUGINLIBLOADER_H
#define PLUGINLIBLOADER_H

#include <set>
#include <string>

#include <tulip/tulipconf.h>

namespace tlp {

struct PluginLoader;

/**
 * @ingroup Plugins
 *
 * @brief This class takes care of the actual loading of the libraries.
 * You can use it to load a single plugin (loadPluginLibrary) or all the plugins in a given folder (loadPlugins).0
 *
 * It is a singleton to guarantee the currentPluginLibrary member is initialized, but it only shows static functions for syntactic sugar.
 **/
class TLP_SCOPE PluginLibraryLoader {
public:

#ifndef EMSCRIPTEN
  /**
  * @brief Loads all the plugins in each directory contained in TulipPluginsPath.
  * This function will not look into subfolders of the specified folder.
  *
  *
  * To load all the plugins in the following example, you need to call this function once for the lib/tulip folder,
  * once for the glyph folder, and once for the interactors folder.
  *
  * lib/tulip/
  * -> glyphs
  *      |-> libBillboard-4.0.0.so
  *      |-> libWindow-4.0.0.so
  * -> interactors
  *      |-> libInteractorAddEdge-4.0.0.so
  *      |-> libInteractorSelectionModifier-4.0.0.so
  * -> libAdjacencyMatrixImport-4.0.0.so
  * -> libColorMapping-4.0.0.so
  * -> libCompleteGraph-4.0.0.so
  *
  *
  * @param loader A PluginLoader to output what is going on. Defaults to 0.
  * @param pluginPath A folder to append to each path in TulipPluginsPath (e.g. "glyphs/")
  *
  **/
  static void loadPlugins(PluginLoader *loader = NULL, const std::string& pluginPath = "");

  /**
   * @brief Loads a single plugin library.
   *
   * @param filename The name of the plugin file to load.
   * @param loader A loader to report what is going on (only its loaded or aborted functions will be called) Defaults to 0.
   * @return bool Whether the plugin was sucessfully loaded.
   **/
  static bool loadPluginLibrary(const std::string & filename, PluginLoader *loader = NULL);
#endif //EMSCRIPTEN

  /**
   * @brief Gets the name of the plug-in library being loaded.
   * If the plugin is statically linked into the tulip library, returns an empty string.
   *
   * @return :string& The name of the plugin library being loaded.
   **/
  static const std::string& getCurrentPluginFileName() {
    return getInstance()->currentPluginLibrary;
  }

private:
  PluginLibraryLoader() {}
#ifndef EMSCRIPTEN
  bool loadNextPluginLibrary(PluginLoader *loader);

  bool initPluginDir(PluginLoader *loader);
#endif

  static PluginLibraryLoader* getInstance() {
    if(_instance == NULL) {
      _instance = new PluginLibraryLoader();
    }

    return _instance;
  }
  static PluginLibraryLoader* _instance;

  std::string message;
  std::string pluginPath;
  std::string currentPluginLibrary;
};

}

#endif //PLUGINLIBLOADER_H

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