interface CategorizingPluginManagerInterface in Drupal 8

Defines an interface for plugin managers that categorize plugin definitions.

Hierarchy

• interface \Drupal\Component\Plugin\Discovery\DiscoveryInterface; interface \Drupal\Component\Plugin\Factory\FactoryInterface; interface \Drupal\Component\Plugin\Mapper\MapperInterface
  • interface \Drupal\Component\Plugin\PluginManagerInterface
    • interface \Drupal\Component\Plugin\CategorizingPluginManagerInterface

6 files declare their use of CategorizingPluginManagerInterface

ActionManager.php in core/lib/Drupal/Core/Action/ActionManager.php

BlockManagerInterface.php in core/lib/Drupal/Core/Block/BlockManagerInterface.php

CategorizingPluginManagerTraitTest.php in core/tests/Drupal/Tests/Core/Plugin/CategorizingPluginManagerTraitTest.php

Contains \Drupal\Tests\Core\Plugin\CategorizingPluginManagerTraitTest.

ConditionManager.php in core/lib/Drupal/Core/Condition/ConditionManager.php

FieldTypePluginManagerInterface.php in core/lib/Drupal/Core/Field/FieldTypePluginManagerInterface.php

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File

core/lib/Drupal/Component/Plugin/CategorizingPluginManagerInterface.php, line 8

Namespace

Drupal\Component\Plugin

interface CategorizingPluginManagerInterface extends PluginManagerInterface {

  /**
   * Gets the names of all categories.
   *
   * @return string[]
   *   An array of translated categories, sorted alphabetically.
   */
  public function getCategories();

  /**
   * Gets sorted plugin definitions.
   *
   * @param array[]|null $definitions
   *   (optional) The plugin definitions to sort. If omitted, all plugin
   *   definitions are used.
   *
   * @return array[]
   *   An array of plugin definitions, sorted by category and label.
   */
  public function getSortedDefinitions(array $definitions = NULL);

  /**
   * Gets sorted plugin definitions grouped by category.
   *
   * In addition to grouping, both categories and its entries are sorted,
   * whereas plugin definitions are sorted by label.
   *
   * @param array[]|null $definitions
   *   (optional) The plugin definitions to group. If omitted, all plugin
   *   definitions are used.
   *
   * @return array[]
   *   Keys are category names, and values are arrays of which the keys are
   *   plugin IDs and the values are plugin definitions.
   */
  public function getGroupedDefinitions(array $definitions = NULL);

}

Members

Name	Modifiers	Type	Description	Overrides
CategorizingPluginManagerInterface::getCategories	public	function	Gets the names of all categories.	1
CategorizingPluginManagerInterface::getGroupedDefinitions	public	function	Gets sorted plugin definitions grouped by category.	1
CategorizingPluginManagerInterface::getSortedDefinitions	public	function	Gets sorted plugin definitions.	2
DiscoveryInterface::getDefinition	public	function	Gets a specific plugin definition.	4
DiscoveryInterface::getDefinitions	public	function	Gets the definition of all plugins for this type.	3
DiscoveryInterface::hasDefinition	public	function	Indicates if a specific plugin definition exists.	2
FactoryInterface::createInstance	public	function	Creates a pre-configured instance of a plugin.	7
MapperInterface::getInstance	public	function	Gets a preconfigured instance of a plugin.	4