Writing your own plugin

ServiceStack allows you to write your own plugin by implementing the IPlugin interface that resides in the root namespace (ServiceStack). It needs to be added to the Plugins collection of your host upon configuration.

using Funq;
using ServiceStack;

public class AppHost : AppSelfHostBase
{
  public override void Configure(Container container)
  {
    this.Plugins.Add(new FooPlugin());
  }
}

public class FooPlugin : IPlugin
{
  public void Register(IAppHost appHost)
  {
  }
}

The difference between this.Plugins.Add and this.LoadPlugin is very small and is as follows:

• this.Plugins.Add adds an instance to the registration queue that gets iterated through after host initialization.
• this.LoadPlugin safely registers the provided IPlugin instance. If the host is already initialized, it executes the registration routine, and otherwise calls this.Plugins.Add to add the instance to the queue.

You can extend your plugin further by implementing the IPreInitPlugin interface and...