Creating Plugins

[cgulka]

I have just discovered that the latest beta allow the creation of plugins. I have been unable to find any information on how to create plugins. I have some great ideas, and would love to start creating some.

Also, is there a list of all plugins available?

[otmanix]

Also, is there a list of all plugins available?

read additional software section in howto: http://ps3mediaserver.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3507

[genie]

otmanix,

this is a list of plugins but I'm a developer and I want to build one is there any documentation on how to do one?

[meskibob]

Not really AFAIK.

[WorldOfHurt]

As far as I can see from the source code (and I have not implemented one, so this is just out of curiosity), a plugin is just a class extending net.pms.external.ExternalListener that gets loaded and shutdown by the PMS bootstrap code.

It has to have a default constructor, but that is the only implementation constraint.

The current built-in extension points are:
[*]net.pms.external.StartStopListener, which gets informed of starting and stopping DLNA resources.[/*]
[*]net.pms.external.AdditionalResourceFolderListener, which gets informed each time a new virtual folder is created (?)[/*]

If your plugin needs to be notified of a different event, that will require modification of existing PMS code to generate the notifications.

For further details, I would suggest you reverse-engineer some of the existing plugins and see how they do their stuff.

Best of luck.

[WorldOfHurt]

See also some work done by another forum member here

[el.botijo]

I have created my own plugin in almost no time. You can check the source code at:
http://sites.google.com/site/elbotijomm ... erver-mods
The JAR file has the source code in it. Nothing to hide, but lots to be ashamed of! Still, that is a good kickstart for any plugin development.

[otmanix]

Hi el.botijo,
I updated the howto which now includes your plugin in the related section: http://ps3mediaserver.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3507
Best regards, Otmanix