PluginInfo

Object Hierarchy:

Description:

[ CCode ( type_id = "peas_plugin_info_get_type ()" ) ]
public sealed class PluginInfo : Object

A PluginInfo contains all the information available about a plugin.

All this information comes from the related plugin info file, whose file extension is ".plugin". Here is an example of such a plugin file, in the [struct@GLib.KeyFile] format:

```toml [Plugin] Module=helloworld Depends=foo;bar;baz Loader=python Name=Hello World Description=Displays "Hello World" Authors=Steve Frécinaux <code@istique.net> Copyright=Copyright © 2009-10 Steve Frécinaux Website=https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Libpeas Help=http://library.gnome.org/devel/libpeas/stable/ Hidden=false ```

Namespace: Peas

Package: libpeas-2

Content:

Properties:

public string[] authors { get; }
public bool builtin { get; }
public string copyright { get; }
public string[] dependencies { get; }
public string description { get; }
public string help_uri { get; }
public bool hidden { get; }
public string icon_name { get; }
public bool loaded { get; }
public string module_dir { get; }
public string module_name { get; }
public string name { get; }
public string version { get; }
public string website { get; }

Static methods:

public static Quark error_quark ()

Creation methods:

protected PluginInfo ()

Methods:

public unowned string[] get_authors ()
Gets a null-terminated array of strings with the authors of the plugin.
public unowned string get_copyright ()
Gets the copyright of the plugin.
public unowned string get_data_dir ()
Gets the data dir of the plugin.
public unowned string[] get_dependencies ()
Gets the dependencies of the plugin.
public unowned string get_description ()
Gets the description of the plugin.
public unowned string? get_external_data (string key)
Gets external data specified for the plugin.
public unowned string get_help_uri ()
Gets the help URI of the plugin.
public unowned string get_icon_name ()
Gets the icon name of the plugin.
public unowned string get_module_dir ()
Gets the module directory.
public unowned string get_module_name ()
Gets the module name.
public unowned string get_name ()
Gets the name of the plugin.
public Resource get_resource (string? filename) throws Error
Creates a new Resource for the given filename located in the module directory.
public Settings? get_settings (string? schema_id)
Creates a new [class@Gio.
public unowned string get_version ()
Gets the version of the plugin.
public unowned string get_website ()
Gets the website of the plugin.
public bool has_dependency (string module_name)
Check if the plugin depends on another plugin.
public bool is_available () throws Error
Check if the plugin is available.
public bool is_builtin ()
Check if the plugin is a builtin plugin.
public bool is_hidden ()
Check if the plugin is a hidden plugin.
public bool is_loaded ()
Check if the plugin is loaded.
public void load_resource (string? filename) throws Error
Loads the resource using get_resource and registers it.

Inherited Members:

All known members inherited from class GLib.Object