interface PluginManagerInterface in Drupal 8

Interface implemented by plugin managers.

There are no explicit methods on the manager interface. Instead plugin managers broker the interactions of the different plugin components, and therefore, must implement each component interface, which is enforced by this interface extending all of the component ones.

While a plugin manager may directly implement these interface methods with custom logic, it is expected to be more common for plugin managers to proxy the method invocations to the respective components, and directly implement only the additional functionality needed by the specific pluggable system. To follow this pattern, plugin managers can extend from the PluginManagerBase class, which contains the proxying logic.

Hierarchy

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

See also

\Drupal\Component\Plugin\PluginManagerBase

Related topics

Plugin API

Using the Plugin API

42 files declare their use of PluginManagerInterface

BlockPluginCollection.php in core/modules/block/src/BlockPluginCollection.php

ConfigEntityBaseUnitTest.php in core/tests/Drupal/Tests/Core/Config/Entity/ConfigEntityBaseUnitTest.php

Contains \Drupal\Tests\Core\Config\Entity\ConfigEntityBaseUnitTest.

ConfigMapperManagerInterface.php in core/modules/config_translation/src/ConfigMapperManagerInterface.php

ContextAwarePluginManagerInterface.php in core/lib/Drupal/Core/Plugin/Context/ContextAwarePluginManagerInterface.php

D6TermNodeDeriver.php in core/modules/taxonomy/src/Plugin/migrate/D6TermNodeDeriver.php

... See full list

File

core/lib/Drupal/Component/Plugin/PluginManagerInterface.php, line 28

Namespace

Drupal\Component\Plugin

interface PluginManagerInterface extends DiscoveryInterface, FactoryInterface, MapperInterface {

}

Members

Name	Modifiers	Type	Description	Overrides
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