public static PluginDescriptor ParsePluginDescriptionFile(string filePath)
{
var descriptor = new PluginDescriptor();
var text = File.ReadAllText(filePath);
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(text))
{
return(descriptor);
}
var settings = new List <string>();
using (var reader = new StringReader(text))
{
string str;
while ((str = reader.ReadLine()) != null)
{
if (String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(str))
{
continue;
}
settings.Add(str.Trim());
}
}
//Old way of file reading. This leads to unexpected behavior when a user's FTP program transfers these files as ASCII (\r\n becomes \n).
//var settings = text.Split(new[] { Environment.NewLine }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
foreach (var setting in settings)
{
var separatorIndex = setting.IndexOf(':');
if (separatorIndex == -1)
{
continue;
}
string key = setting.Substring(0, separatorIndex).Trim();
string value = setting.Substring(separatorIndex + 1).Trim();
switch (key)
{
case "Group":
descriptor.Group = value;
break;
case "FriendlyName":
descriptor.FriendlyName = value;
break;
case "SystemName":
descriptor.SystemName = value;
break;
case "Version":
descriptor.Version = value;
break;
case "SupportedVersions":
{
//parse supported versions
descriptor.SupportedVersions = value.Split(new [] { ',' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
.Select(x => x.Trim())
.ToList();
}
break;
case "Author":
descriptor.Author = value;
break;
case "DisplayOrder":
{
int displayOrder;
int.TryParse(value, out displayOrder);
descriptor.DisplayOrder = displayOrder;
}
break;
case "FileName":
descriptor.PluginFileName = value;
break;
case "LimitedToStores":
{
//parse list of store IDs
foreach (var str1 in value.Split(new [] { ',' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
.Select(x => x.Trim()))
{
descriptor.LimitedToStores.Add(str1);
}
}
break;
default:
break;
}
}
return(descriptor);
}