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authorbrain <brain@e03df62e-2008-0410-955e-edbf42e46eb7>2007-11-04 19:49:36 +0000
committerbrain <brain@e03df62e-2008-0410-955e-edbf42e46eb7>2007-11-04 19:49:36 +0000
commit43d2d6ec89d35adf021a8bbd52373e3b6e3d3042 (patch)
tree142e1d2a96eac7cb5003f26ad23987a87dd7cc8c /include/modules.h
parentcc1413d3503994e251e818cca2aa42b3885e10f2 (diff)
Comment all the new stuff
git-svn-id: http://svn.inspircd.org/repository/trunk/inspircd@8516 e03df62e-2008-0410-955e-edbf42e46eb7
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1 files changed, 63 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/modules.h b/include/modules.h
index 908a3e264..d429288c9 100644
--- a/include/modules.h
+++ b/include/modules.h
@@ -1514,22 +1514,31 @@ class CoreExport FileReader : public classbase
};
/** A DLLFactory (designed to load shared objects) containing a
- * handle to a module's init_module() function.
+ * handle to a module's init_module() function. Unfortunately,
+ * due to the design of shared object systems we must keep this
+ * hanging around, as if we remove this handle, we remove the
+ * shared object file from memory (!)
*/
typedef DLLFactory<Module> ircd_module;
-/** A list of loaded Modules
- */
-typedef std::vector<Module*> ModuleList;
-
/** A list of loaded module handles (ircd_module)
*/
typedef std::vector<ircd_module*> ModuleHandleList;
+/** A list of modules
+ */
typedef std::vector<Module*> IntModuleList;
+
+/** A list of event handlers
+ */
typedef std::vector<IntModuleList> EventHandlerList;
+
+/** An event handler iterator
+ */
typedef IntModuleList::iterator EventHandlerIter;
+/** Module priority states
+ */
enum PriorityState
{
PRIO_DONTCARE,
@@ -1565,30 +1574,71 @@ class CoreExport ModuleManager : public classbase
*/
InspIRCd* Instance;
+ /** List of loaded modules and shared object/dll handles
+ * keyed by module name
+ */
std::map<std::string, std::pair<ircd_module*, Module*> > Modules;
public:
+ /** Event handler hooks.
+ * This needs to be public to be used by FOREACH_MOD and friends.
+ */
EventHandlerList EventHandlers;
/** Simple, bog-standard, boring constructor.
*/
ModuleManager(InspIRCd* Ins);
+ /** Destructor
+ */
~ModuleManager();
+ /** Change the priority of one event in a module.
+ * Each module event has a list of modules which are attached to that event type.
+ * If you wish to be called before or after other specific modules, you may use this
+ * method (usually within void Module::Prioritize()) to set your events priority.
+ * You may use this call in other methods too, however, this is not supported behaviour
+ * for a module.
+ * @param mod The module to change the priority of
+ * @param i The event to change the priority of
+ * @param s The state you wish to use for this event. Use one of
+ * PRIO_FIRST to set the event to be first called, PRIO_LAST to
+ * set it to be the last called, or PRIO_BEFORE and PRIO_AFTER
+ * to set it to be before or after one or more other modules.
+ * @param modules If PRIO_BEFORE or PRIO_AFTER is set in parameter 's',
+ * then this contains a list of one or more modules your module must be
+ * placed before or after. Your module will be placed before the highest
+ * priority module in this list for PRIO_BEFORE, or after the lowest
+ * priority module in this list for PRIO_AFTER.
+ * @param sz The number of modules being passed for PRIO_BEFORE and PRIO_AFTER.
+ * Defaults to 1, as most of the time you will only want to prioritize your module
+ * to be before or after one other module.
+ */
bool SetPriority(Module* mod, Implementation i, PriorityState s, Module** modules = NULL, size_t sz = 1);
+ /** Change the priority of all events in a module.
+ * @param mod The module to set the priority of
+ * @param s The priority of all events in the module.
+ * Note that with this method, it is not possible to effectively use
+ * PRIO_BEFORE or PRIO_AFTER, you should use the more fine tuned
+ * SetPriority method for this, where you may specify other modules to
+ * be prioritized against.
+ */
bool SetPriority(Module* mod, PriorityState s);
- /** Attach an event to a module
+ /** Attach an event to a module.
+ * You may later detatch the event with ModuleManager::Detach().
+ * If your module is unloaded, all events are automatically detatched.
* @param i Event type to attach
* @param mod Module to attach event to
* @return True if the event was attached
*/
bool Attach(Implementation i, Module* mod);
- /** Detatch an event from a module
+ /** Detatch an event from a module.
+ * This is not required when your module unloads, as the core will
+ * automatically detatch your module from all events it is attached to.
* @param i Event type to detach
* @param mod Module to detach event from
* @param Detach true if the event was detached
@@ -1745,6 +1795,12 @@ class CoreExport ModuleManager : public classbase
*/
const std::string& GetModuleName(Module* m);
+ /** Return a list of all modules matching the given filter
+ * @param filter This int is a bitmask of flags set in Module::Flags,
+ * such as VF_VENDOR or VF_STATIC. If you wish to receive a list of
+ * all modules with no filtering, set this to 0.
+ * @return The list of module names
+ */
const std::vector<std::string> GetAllModuleNames(int filter);
};