Review Request 119079: Add utility function for loading all plugins from a given dir + easy accessor for metadata

[Alexander Richardson]

On Juli 19, 2014, 11:27 vorm., Alexander Richardson wrote:
> > I see you haven't changed the KPluginLoader methods - have you looked to see if they are the ones that are likely to be useful?

I looked at KDevelop and Kate, and it seems there the version return a list of KPluginMetaData objects is sufficient.


- Alexander


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On Juli 18, 2014, 3:34 nachm., Alexander Richardson wrote:
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> (Updated Juli 18, 2014, 3:34 nachm.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks.
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> Repository: kcoreaddons
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> Description
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> This class simplifies reading the metadata from a qt plugin by providing
> type safe accessor functions for the standard plugininfo keys that are
> also used by the .desktop file based KPluginInfo
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> KPluginMetaData: Read the translated value for name and description
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> The "Name" and "Comment" fields of the metadata should be translated
> since they will be shown to the user (e.g. in the plugin selection
> dialog)
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> Add a unit test for KPluginMetaData
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> Add KPluginMetaData::findPlugins()
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> Add a unit test for KPluginMetaData::findPlugins()
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> Introduce KPluginLoader::instantiatePlugins() and add a unit test
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> This method allows easily instantiating all plugins in a given directory
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> KPluginMetaData::pluginName() was changed to return the base name of the
> plugin file if no plugin name was set in the JSON metadata
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> Diffs
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>   autotests/CMakeLists.txt 75d12932b36fcfe4ae1d538176ef9f85f60f15dd 
>   autotests/jsonplugin.json d86fad49e5d074762d70282b3ace4bf3e6db58df 
>   autotests/kpluginloadertest.cpp c8225c02de3a64cae29d88954700dbc6f03ff1b0 
>   autotests/kpluginmetadatatest.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   src/lib/CMakeLists.txt 26eb5a1d4d56742a3395ba2645290bea15aee181 
>   src/lib/plugin/kpluginloader.h 0b7a53d3b879cec1d755b849d9d8c640d251a379 
>   src/lib/plugin/kpluginloader.cpp 9b3c5b6aec537b03b0d8341b33f6f4d7a76c8344 
>   src/lib/plugin/kpluginmetadata.h PRE-CREATION 
>   src/lib/plugin/kpluginmetadata.cpp PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119079/diff/
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> Testing
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> Added a unit test
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> Should easily allow loading all plugins from a given directory without needing kbuildsycoca
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> Thanks,
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> Alexander Richardson
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