Kyoo/Kyoo.Common/Controllers/IPlugin.cs

using System;
using Autofac;
using JetBrains.Annotations;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Builder;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;

namespace Kyoo.Controllers
{
	/// <summary>
	/// A common interface used to discord plugins
	/// </summary>
	/// <remarks>
	/// You can inject services in the IPlugin constructor.
	/// You should only inject well known services like an ILogger, IConfiguration or IWebHostEnvironment.
	/// </remarks>
	[UsedImplicitly(ImplicitUseTargetFlags.WithInheritors)]
	public interface IPlugin
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// A slug to identify this plugin in queries.
		/// </summary>
		string Slug { get; }
		
		/// <summary>
		/// The name of the plugin
		/// </summary>
		string Name { get; }
		
		/// <summary>
		/// The description of this plugin. This will be displayed on the "installed plugins" page.
		/// </summary>
		string Description { get; }
		
		/// <summary>
		/// <c>true</c> if the plugin should be enabled, <c>false</c> otherwise.
		/// If a plugin is not enabled, no configure method will be called.
		/// This allow one to enable a plugin if a specific configuration value is set or if the environment contains
		/// the right settings. 
		/// </summary>
		/// <remarks>
		/// By default, a plugin is always enabled. This method can be overriden to change this behavior.
		/// </remarks>
		virtual bool Enabled => true;

		/// <summary>
		/// A configure method that will be run on plugin's startup.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="builder">The autofac service container to register services.</param>
		void Configure(ContainerBuilder builder)
		{
			// Skipped
		}
		
		/// <summary>
		/// A configure method that will be run on plugin's startup.
		/// This is available for libraries that build upon a <see cref="IServiceCollection"/>, for more precise
		/// configuration use <see cref="Configure(Autofac.ContainerBuilder)"/>.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="services">A service container to register new services.</param>
		void Configure(IServiceCollection services)
		{
			// Skipped
		}
		

		/// <summary>
		/// An optional configuration step to allow a plugin to change asp net configurations.
		/// WARNING: This is only called on Kyoo's startup so you must restart the app to apply this changes.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="app">
		/// The Asp.Net application builder. On most case it is not needed but you can use it to
		/// add asp net functionalities.
		/// </param>
		void ConfigureAspNet(IApplicationBuilder app)
		{
			// Skipped
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// An optional function to execute and initialize your plugin.
		/// It can be used to initialize a database connection, fill initial data or anything.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="provider">A service provider to request services</param>
		void Initialize(IServiceProvider provider)
		{
			// Skipped
		}
	}
}