An augmentable class, which provides the augmented class with the ability to host plugins. It adds plug and unplug methods to the augmented class, which can be used to add or remove plugins from instances of the class.
Plugins can also be added through the constructor configuration object passed to the host class' constructor using the "plugins" property. Supported values for the "plugins" property are those defined by the plug method. For example the following code would add the AnimPlugin and IOPlugin to Overlay (the plugin host):
Plug.Host's protected _initPlugins and _destroyPlugins methods should be invoked by the host class at the appropriate point in the host's lifecyle.
_destroyPlugins
Unplugs and destroys all plugins on the host
_initConfigPlugins
config
A protected initialization method, used by the host class to initialize plugin configurations passed the constructor, through the config object.
Host objects should invoke this method at the appropriate time in their construction lifecycle.
config
Object
The configuration object passed to the constructor
_initPlugins
config
Initializes static plugins registered on the host (using the Base.plug static method) and any plugins passed to the instance through the "plugins" configuration property.
config
Object
The configuration object with property name/value pairs.
hasPlugin
ns
Determines if a plugin has plugged into this host.
ns
String
The plugin's namespace
Returns a truthy value (the plugin instance) if present, or undefined if not.
plug
P
config
Adds a plugin to the host object. This will instantiate the plugin and attach it to the configured namespace on the host object.
P
Function | Object | Array
Accepts the plugin class, or an object with a "fn" property specifying the plugin class and a "cfg" property specifying the configuration for the Plugin.
Additionally an Array can also be passed in, with the above function or object values, allowing the user to add multiple plugins in a single call.
config
Object
(Optional) If the first argument is the plugin class, the second argument can be the configuration for the plugin.
A reference to the host object
plug
hostClass
plugin
config
Registers plugins to be instantiated at the class level (plugins which should be plugged into every instance of the class by default).
unplug
plugin
Removes a plugin from the host object. This will destroy the plugin instance and delete the namespace from the host object.
A reference to the host object
unplug
hostClass
plugin
Unregisters any class level plugins which have been registered by the host class, or any other class in the hierarchy.