Plasma5Support::PluginLoader Class Reference

Static Public Member Functions
static QList< KPluginMetaData >	listDataEngineMetaData (const QString &parentApp=QString())
static Service *	loadService (const QString &name, QObject *parent=nullptr)

Detailed Description

This is an abstract base class which defines an interface to which Plasma's DataEngine and Service Loading logic can communicate with a parent application.

This is deprecated api in KF6, use C++ based QML imports instead

Definition at line 28 of file pluginloader.h.

Member Function Documentation

listDataEngineMetaData()

QList< KPluginMetaData > Plasma5Support::PluginLoader::listDataEngineMetaData ( const QString & parentApp = QString() )

static

Returns a list of all known dataengines.

Parameters

parentApp

the application to filter dataengines on. Uses the X-KDE-ParentApp entry (if any) in the plugin info. The default value of QString() will result in a list of all dataengines

Returns

list of dataengines

Definition at line 53 of file pluginloader.cpp.

loadService()

Service * Plasma5Support::PluginLoader::loadService ( const QString & name, QObject * parent = nullptr )

static

Load a Service plugin.

Parameters

name	the plugin name of the service to load
args	a list of arguments to supply to the service plugin when loading it
parent	the parent object, if any, for the service

Returns

a Service object, unlike Plasma5Support::Service::loadService, this can return null.

Definition at line 25 of file pluginloader.cpp.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• pluginloader.h
• pluginloader.cpp