Hi all,
I've created an app that loads some dlls dynamically from the
filesystem. All the dlls implement a certain interface so that they can
be easily manipulated from the main app. The dlls work as plugins for
the main app.
What I want to do is give some extra functionality to the dlls so that
each dll can have some extra functions inside it, that the other dlls
are not required to have (so I cannot add more functions to the main
interface that all the dlls implement). I would like all the changes to
be made to the plugin dlls and not the main app (so when a new plugin is
created I wouldn't like to change the main app as well).
How can I achieve this?
-pnp
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pnp wrote: Hi all,
I've created an app that loads some dlls dynamically from the
filesystem. All the dlls implement a certain interface so that they can
be easily manipulated from the main app. The dlls work as plugins for
the main app.
What I want to do is give some extra functionality to the dlls so
that each dll can have some extra functions inside it, that the other
dlls are not required to have (so I cannot add more functions to the
main interface that all the dlls implement). I would like all the
changes to be made to the plugin dlls and not the main app (so when a
new plugin is created I wouldn't like to change the main app as well).
How can I achieve this?
-pnp
You can create the classes inheriting from the classes which implement
the common interfaces. I just don't see why there is any problem there.
Jianwei
When I load the dll, I use it's functionality by unwraping it and
casting it to the main interface. If I create a class that inherits from
a class that implements the interface how would I use it's functions?
John Sun wrote: pnp wrote:
Hi all,
I've created an app that loads some dlls dynamically from the
filesystem. All the dlls implement a certain interface so that they
can be easily manipulated from the main app. The dlls work as plugins
for the main app.
What I want to do is give some extra functionality to the dlls so
that each dll can have some extra functions inside it, that the other
dlls are not required to have (so I cannot add more functions to the
main interface that all the dlls implement). I would like all the
changes to be made to the plugin dlls and not the main app (so when a
new plugin is created I wouldn't like to change the main app as well).
How can I achieve this?
-pnp
You can create the classes inheriting from the classes which implement
the common interfaces. I just don't see why there is any problem there.
Jianwei
I see two possible solutions, depending upon how the extra functions in
the various DLLs are related, and whether they logically fall into
groups that must either be completely implemented or not implemented at
all.
If you are going to have groups of extra functions, you could create
other interfaces that a given class may implement or not. Then, in the
main class, you could say
IOptionalInterf ace1 oi1 = loadedClass as IOptionalInterf ace1;
if (oi1 != null)
{
... call methods in optional interface ...
}
On the other hand, if your optional methods / properties are not
related in this way, then you may have to resort to using Reflection
and testing for particular method names. You can then invoke the
methods using Reflection as well.
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