Plugin (Flink : 2.0-SNAPSHOT API)

All Known Subinterfaces:

FailureEnricherFactory, FileSystemFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractAzureFSFactory, AbstractS3FileSystemFactory, AnotherDummyFSFactory, AzureBlobStorageFSFactory, AzureDataLakeStoreGen2FSFactory, ConnectionLimitingFactory, CustomTestFailureEnricherFactory, DummyFSFactory, GSFileSystemFactory, HadoopFsFactory, LocalFileSystemFactory, OSSFileSystemFactory, PluginFileSystemFactory, S3AFileSystemFactory, S3FileSystemFactory, S3FileSystemFactory, S3PFileSystemFactory, SecureAzureBlobStorageFSFactory, SecureAzureDataLakeStoreGen2FSFactory
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@PublicEvolving
public interface Plugin
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Interface for plugins. Plugins typically extend this interface in their SPI and the concrete implementations of a service then implement the SPI contract.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Default Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`default void`	`configure(Configuration config)`	Optional method for plugins to pick up settings from the configuration.
`default ClassLoader`	`getClassLoader()`	Helper method to get the class loader used to load the plugin.

- Method Detail
  - getClassLoader
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default ClassLoader getClassLoader()
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    Helper method to get the class loader used to load the plugin. This may be needed for some plugins that use dynamic class loading afterwards the plugin was loaded.
    
    Returns:
    
    the class loader used to load the plugin.
  - configure
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default void configure(Configuration config)
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    Optional method for plugins to pick up settings from the configuration.
    
    Parameters:
    
    config - The configuration to apply to the plugin.