Jiwa

Hi Mike,

When extending the API and you have a ServiceStack Service Class such as the below:

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public class ContactSelectService : Service

Is there a way of getting the name of the actual plugin in which the class is implemented, I am asking because I want to be able to access the System Setting for the plugin but would like to avoid hard coding the value.

Hi Stuart,

I haven't tried this, but I think the GetAssembly method of System.Reflection.Assembly will do this - see here.

The Assembly object returned from System.Reflection.Assembly.GetAssembly(ContactSelectService) should contain the plugin name in there - as we compile assemblies from plugins using the plugin name.

EDIT: I should mention System.Reflection calls are often expensive - so I recommend doing that in the once in the plugin and storing that in a local or static variable/property and referring to that in subsequent code.

Mike

This will actually get desired result where PluginName is declared as static in the RESTAPIPlugin class and the code is in the configure function.

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         System.Reflection.AssemblyName aName = new  System.Reflection.AssemblyName(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(ContactSelectService)).FullName);
         PluginName =  aName.Name;