Changeset 2642 for trunk/sources/HeuristicLab.PluginInfrastructure/Interfaces/IApplicationManager.cs

Timestamp:

01/19/10 13:40:52 (14 years ago)

Author:

gkronber

Message:

Added a two versions of the type discovery methods in IApplicationManager with a boolean parameter to select if only instantiable types should be returned. #846

File:

• trunk/sources/HeuristicLab.PluginInfrastructure/Interfaces/IApplicationManager.cs (modified) (4 diffs)

trunk/sources/HeuristicLab.PluginInfrastructure/Interfaces/IApplicationManager.cs

@@ -35 +35 @@
     /// </summary>
     IEnumerable<IPluginDescription> Plugins { get; }
+
     /// <summary>
     /// Gets all discovered applications.
@@ -40 +41 @@
     IEnumerable<IApplicationDescription> Applications { get; }
 
-    /// <summary>
-    /// Discovers and creates instances of <typeparamref name="T"/> and all types implementing or inheriting <typeparamref name="T"/> (directly and indirectly) declared in any assembly of <paramref name="plugin"/>.
-    /// </summary>
-    /// <typeparam name="T">The type or super-type to discover.</typeparam>
-    /// <param name="plugin">The declaring plugin.</param>
-    /// <returns>An enumerable of instances of the discovered types.</returns>
-    IEnumerable<T> GetInstances<T>(IPluginDescription plugin) where T : class;
     /// <summary>
     /// Discovers and creates instances of <typeparamref name="T"/> and all types implementing or inheriting <typeparamref name="T"/> (directly and indirectly).
@@ -67 +61 @@
     /// <returns>An enumerable of discovered types.</returns>
     IEnumerable<Type> GetTypes(Type type);
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Discovers all types implementing or inheriting <paramref name="type"/> (directly and indirectly).
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="type">The type to discover.</param>
+    /// <param name="onlyInstantiable">Return only types that are instantiable (instance, abstract... are not returned)</param>
+    /// <returns>An enumerable of discovered types.</returns>
+    IEnumerable<Type> GetTypes(Type type, bool onlyInstantiable);
+
     /// <summary>
     /// Discovers all types implementing or inheriting <paramref name="type"/> (directly and indirectly) that are declaed in any assembly of <paramref name="plugin"/>.
@@ -74 +77 @@
     /// <returns>An enumerable of discovered types.</returns>
     IEnumerable<Type> GetTypes(Type type, IPluginDescription plugin);
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Discovers all types implementing or inheriting <paramref name="type"/> (directly and indirectly) that are declaed in any assembly of <paramref name="plugin"/>.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="type">The type to discover.</param>
+    /// <param name="plugin">The declaring plugin.</param>
+    /// <param name="onlyInstantiable">Return only types that are instantiable (instance, abstract... are not returned)</param>
+    /// <returns>An enumerable of discovered types.</returns>
+    IEnumerable<Type> GetTypes(Type type, IPluginDescription plugin, bool onlyInstantiable);
+
     /// <summary>
     /// Finds the plugin that declares the <paramref name="type">type</paramref>.