Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: plugnplay
Version: 0.4.2
Summary: A Generic plug-in system for python
Home-page: http://github.com/daltonmatos/plugnplay
Author: Dalton Barreto
Author-email: daltonmatos@gmail.com
License: GPLv2
Description: Plug n' Play
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        Plug n' PLay (PnP) is a Generic plug-in system inspired by Trac's (http://trac.edgewall.org)
        internal component management. With PnP you can turn any program into a pluggable software very easily. 
        
        You just have to define the Interfaces and let others implement them. When your code is running 
        you can dynamically retrieve who are the classes that implement a certain Interface, and call 
        the specific methods.
        
        A simple example
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        Think this way: You have e very simple program that just copy files around.
        
        Say you want to check if the copy was OK by calculating the MD5 hash of the 
        two files (the original and the copy). You can do this implementing the MD5 check 
        inside your main code, that's OK too, but when you need to add another check 
        (e.g. calculate the SHA-1 of the files) you will have to modify your code so 
        it can call two methods, the MD5 checker and the SHA-1 checker.
        
        With PnP you write only the main piece of the program, the part that does only the copying, 
        and the hash checkers you can implement whenever you want, *without* any modification 
        to the main code.
         
        PnP is roughly a implementation of the Observer pattern (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_pattern). 
         
        The code for this example
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        Ok, too much talk, now some code. A pseudo-code to the example above would be:
        
        :: 
             
             class CopyListener(Interface): 
                def copy_finished(self, original_file, new_file):
                  pass
        
        
        
        The main code would be:
        
        ::
        
           PnP.load_plugins("/some/path/with/python/files") # egg files in the future?.
           copy_file(file1, file2)
        
           # Would return all python classes that 
           # implement CopyListerner interface
           copy_listeners = CopyListener.implementors()
        
           # Call each of the listeners telling the copy finished
           for listener in copy_listeners:
             listener.copy_finished(file1, file2)
        
        
        And an example of one such listener would be:
        
        ::
        
           from myproject.interfaces import CopyListener
        
           class MD5Check(Plugin):
             implements = [CopyListener,]
        
             def copy_finished(self, file1, file2):
                md5_1 = hash.md5(file1.read()).hexdigest()
                md5_2 = hash.md5(file2.read()).hexdigest()
                if md5_1 is not md5_2:
                  # Do something very useful! =)
        
        
        New in version 0.4.1
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        An important bugfix: There was a problem when the plugins were inside a regular python package. Thanks to Hugo Ribeiro (https://github.com/hugosenari) who reported it. The problem caused the implementors of an interface not to be correctly recorded for later retrieval in the code.
        More details: Issue #6 (https://github.com/daltonmatos/plugnplay/issues/6).
        
        New in version 0.4
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        Since plugnplay version 0.4 you can call your Interface method directly, like this:
        
        :: 
        
            CopyListener.copy_finished(file1, file2)
        
        This line will call the ``copy_finished`` method of all objects that implement the ``CopyListener`` interface.
        This is speciallt iseful when you just want to call all listeners, but do not have any interest on their return value.
        
        
        Conclusion
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        Did you like this project? Very nice, so help me write it! Fork the repo and 
        send me some pull requests! Or talk to me directly if you have some great ideas to implement!
        
        
        Thanks,
        
        Dalton Barreto
        
        
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
