5.267 Dynamic Methods

These methods are currently in Beta. Interfaces may change significantly in future releases.

Several methods are dynamically inserted onto each plugin. These methods do not need to be included in the plugin class, and will be overwritten if included. Additionally, a logger is inserted into each plugin as discussed in the next section. The inserted methods are shown below (full definitions can be found in AbstractPlugin and AbstractPluginInfo):

public void start() throws PluginStartException; (Equivalent to the start method in the Plugin Control Service.)
public void stop() throws PluginStopException; (Equivalent to the stop method in the Plugin Control Service.)
public Log getLog(); (See Logging.)
public ConfigObject getAppConfig(); (See Configuration.)
public String message(Map parameters); (See i18n Messaging.)
public String getPluginType();
public PluginState getState();
public Integer getPollInterval();
public Boolean getAutoStart();
public Map<String, Object> getConfig(); (See Configuration.)

Many of these methods are provided for convenience and are discussed in the linked pages or the following sections.