Genie Plugins

You MUST have the Vala bindings installed on your system for this to work. They are built by the default GPlugin build.

Example Genie Plugin

Due to the way GPlugin.PluginInfo info works, you must subclass it and set your values in the new constructor. It is recommended that you define this class in a namespace to avoid collisions with other plugins.

Like all plugins in GPlugin, Genie plugins must also implement the gplugin_query, gplugin_load, and gplugin_unload functions. These functions must be in the global namespace.

The following is a basic Genie plugin.

uses GPlugin

namespace BasicPlugin
    class Info : GPlugin.PluginInfo
        construct()
            authors : array of string = {"author1"}

            Object(
                id: "gplugin/genie-basic-plugin",
                abi_version: 0x01020304,
                name: "basic plugin",
                authors: authors,
                category: "test",
                version: "version",
                license_id: "license",
                summary: "summary",
                website: "website",
                description: "description"
            )

def gplugin_query(out error : Error) : GPlugin.PluginInfo
    error = null

    return new BasicPlugin.Info()

def gplugin_load(plugin : GPlugin.Plugin, out error : Error) : bool
    error = null

    return true

def gplugin_unload(plugin : GPlugin.Plugin, out error : Error) : bool
    error = null

    return true