org.neo4j.server.plugins
Interface PluginLifecycle

public interface PluginLifecycle

Interface to be implemented and exposed via the Java ServiceLocator mechanism that allows plugins to provide their own initialization.
The implementations of this interface have to be listed in a file META-INF/services/org.neo4j.server.plugins.PluginLifecycle that contains the fully qualified class names of the individual plugin. This file has to be supplied with the plugin jar to the Neo4j server.
The plugin might return a collection of @{see Injectable}s that can later be used with

Method Summary

Collection<Injectable<?>>	start(GraphDatabaseService graphDatabaseService, org.apache.commons.configuration.Configuration config) Called at initialization time, before the plugin ressources are acutally loaded.
void	stop() called to shutdown individual external resources or configurations

Method Detail

start

Collection<Injectable<?>> start(GraphDatabaseService graphDatabaseService,
                                org.apache.commons.configuration.Configuration config)

Called at initialization time, before the plugin ressources are acutally loaded.

Parameters:

graphDatabaseService - of the Neo4j service, use it to integrate it with custom configuration mechanisms

config - server configuration

Returns:

A list of @{see Injectable}s that will be available to resource dependency injection later

stop

void stop()

called to shutdown individual external resources or configurations