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Wegged

Reputation: 2423

MEF Plugins with Security and Profiles Efficency

I have an application that has many modules/plugins. I am using MEF with a Directory plugin to import them. Each user has a list of available modules stored in a database and each user can have multiple profiles controlling which modules are visible.

There is an overview area showing information from all visible modules with an [ImportMany(typeof(IModule)] attribute.

What is a good way of handling this so that invisible or inaccessible modules are not created in memory.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 816

Answers (2)

Tim
Tim

Reputation: 8196

Lazy loading them will ensure they are not initialised or loaded into memory. Then use metadata to find the module names and details.

Upvotes: 2

Mark Heath
Mark Heath

Reputation: 49522

Using [ImportMany(typeof(IModule)] will create an instance of each module - that's just the way MEF works. So one approach would be for the constructors of your Modules to do nothing, and then call a Load method on each Module that you actually want to use, in which it can do whatever work it needs to do.

Alternatively, create a new interface called IModuleInfo which just has the information necessary for your overview area.

Upvotes: -1

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