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Adjusted 'Custom services' description to the actual implementation (cont'd)

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Klaus Schmidinger 2005-08-21 13:00:00 +02:00
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@ -887,14 +887,13 @@ virtual bool Service(const char *Id, void *Data = NULL);
<tt>Id</tt> is a unique identification string that identifies the service protocol.
To avoid collisions, the string should contain a service name, the plugin name (unless
the service is not related to a single plugin) and a protocol version number.
<tt>Data</tt> points to a custom data structure or is <tt>NULL</tt> to detect whether
the plugin supports this service. For each id string there should be a specification
that describes the format of the data structure, and any change to the format should
be reflected by a change of the id string.
<tt>Data</tt> points to a custom data structure. For each id string
there should be a specification that describes the format of the data
structure, and any change to the format should be reflected by a change
of the id string.
<p>
The function shall return <i>true</i> for any service id string it handles, and <i>false</i>
otherwise. The function shall not perform any actions as long as <tt>Data</tt> is
<tt>NULL</tt>. The plugins have to agreee in which situations the service
otherwise. The plugins have to agreee in which situations the service
may be called, for example whether the service may be called from every thread, or
just from the main thread. A possible implementation could look like this:
@ -915,6 +914,8 @@ bool cPluginHello::Service(const char *Id, void *Data)
}
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Plugins should expect to be called with <tt>Data</tt> set to <tt>NULL</tt> and may use
this as a 'service supported' check without performing any actions.
<p>
To send messages to, or request services from a specific plugin, one plugin can directly
call another plugin's service function: