6.1.2 Lifecycle States

During the course of a plugin's use, the state of the plugin can change many times. Plugins have four possible states: Stopped, Started, Paused, and Errored. For the descriptions of each state, see 8.4.12 Fields: Plugins. The flow of a plugin through the states is shown in the following image:

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See 6.2.13 Handling Events for information about the events that occur during lifecycle state changes.

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