[Olsr-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] httpinfo: add position information tab

[Henning Rogge]

On 05/24/2012 12:23 PM, Ferry Huberts wrote:
> yeah, me too.
> Using something like a socket seemed waaaay overkill.

Yes.

> yes, use OSGi declarative services.
>
> seriously, the ideas in OSGi declarative services are extremely valid:
> If we have plugins provide certain 'service interfaces' and we have a
> way of accessing the plugins, we can sort-of safely do what we want.
>
> we need more information in the core to determine what the
> type/name/id/provides services/... of the loaded plugins are.

Maybe there is a way to adapt this concept in a lightweight way.

> the 'service interfaces' I thinking about are:
> - init/start/stop/unint (like we have not) (mandatory)
> - identification (mandatory)
> - provides services (mandatory)
> - configuration (optional)
> - ... anything more we need

At the moment the new framework has four callbacks (which can be used by 
the plugin): init, enable, disable and "remove".

It also has a struct with the plugins name, description and author.

A configuration callback is not necessary because the plugins will be 
using their init callback to hook their own configuration into the 
central config management (with a function of the core) if necessary.

If the plugin supply a list of function names it exports to other parts 
of the framework, the plugin loader could supply pointers for this 
functions.

Henning Rogge

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