Getting the Name of a Plugin in a ServiceStack Service Class

[SBarnes]

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.

[Mike.Sheen]

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

[SBarnes]

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;