/// <summary>
/// Loads all the available plugins from the Dll files located in the specified directory
/// </summary>
/// <param name="pluginDirectoryPath">The path to the directory where the files which contains plugins are</param>
/// <param name="pluginExtension">The extension of the plugin files</param>
public void LoadPlugins(string pluginDirectoryPath, string pluginExtension)
{
string[] files;
DllInfo dllInfo;
lock (lockObject)
{
if (!pluginExtension.StartsWith("*."))
{
pluginExtension = "*." + pluginExtension;
}
files = Directory.GetFiles(pluginDirectoryPath, pluginExtension);
for (int i = 0; i < files.Length; ++i)
{
try
{
Assembly assembly = Assembly.LoadFrom(files[i]);
dllInfo = DllInfo.GetDllInfo(files[i]);
//if (IntPtr.Size != dllInfo.PointerSize)
//{
// message += "File: " + files[i] + ", Ptr: " + dllInfo.PointerSize + "\r\n";
// continue;
//}
this.rwPluginsLock.AcquireWriterLock(-1);
if (dllInfo.IsManagedAssembly)
{
LoadPluginsFromManagedDll(dllInfo);
}
else
{
LoadPluginsFromUnmanagedDll(dllInfo);
}
this.rwPluginsLock.ReleaseWriterLock();
}
//catch (BadImageFormatException)
//{
// plugin = LoadUnmanagedPlugin(files[i]);
// if(plugin != null)
// plugins.Add(plugin);
//}
catch { }
}
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Loads plugins from a managed Dll file
/// </summary>
/// <param name="dll">A DllInfo object which contains information about the file which contains the plugins to load</param>
protected virtual void LoadPluginsFromManagedDll(DllInfo dll)
{
Assembly assembly;
Type[] types;
Plugin instance;
assembly = Assembly.LoadFile(dll.FilePath);
if (assembly.ManifestModule.Name == "Robotics.dll")
{
return;
}
types = assembly.GetTypes();
foreach (Type type in types)
{
if ((type.GetInterface(pluginTypeName) == null) || type.IsAbstract)
{
continue;
}
try
{
instance = (Plugin)assembly.CreateInstance(type.FullName);
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(instance.Name) || plugins.ContainsKey(instance.Name))
{
continue;
}
this.plugins.Add(instance.Name, instance);
this.pluginsInitialized = false;
}
catch { continue; }
}
}
/// <summary>
/// GEts information about a Dll
/// </summary>
/// <param name="fileName">Path of the dll file</param>
/// <returns>A DllInfo object which contains information about the Dll</returns>
public static DllInfo GetDllInfo(string fileName)
{
// Code from
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/367761/how-to-determine-whether-a-dll-is-a-managed-assembly-or-native-prevent-loading
// Enhanced with code from
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8593264/determining-if-a-dll-is-a-valid-clr-dll-by-reading-the-pe-directly-64bit-issue
uint peHeader;
uint peHeaderSignature;
ushort dataDictionaryStart;
int dataDirectoriesOffset;
Stream fs = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
BinaryReader reader = new BinaryReader(fs);
DllInfo dllInfo = new DllInfo();
dllInfo.filePath = (new FileInfo(fileName)).FullName;
//PE Header starts at 0x3C (60). Its a 4 byte header.
fs.Position = 0x3C;
peHeader = reader.ReadUInt32();
//Moving to PE Header start location...
fs.Position = peHeader;
peHeaderSignature = reader.ReadUInt32();
// Number identifying type of target machine.
// Section 3.3.1 of the PE format specification.
dllInfo.machine = reader.ReadUInt16();
// Number of sections; indicates size of the Section Table,
// which immediately follows the headers.
dllInfo.sections = reader.ReadUInt16();
// Time and date the file was created.
dllInfo.timestamp = reader.ReadUInt32();
// File offset of the COFF symbol table or 0 if none is present.
dllInfo.pSymbolTable = reader.ReadUInt32();
// Number of entries in the symbol table.
// This data can be used in locating the string table, which immediately follows the symbol table
dllInfo.noOfSymbol = reader.ReadUInt32();
// Size of the optional header, which is required for executable files but not for object files
dllInfo.optionalHeaderSize = reader.ReadUInt16();
//
dllInfo.characteristics = reader.ReadUInt16();
dataDirectoriesOffset = GetDataDirectoriesOffset(fs, reader);
// Now we are at the end of the PE Header and from here,
// the PE Optional Headers starts...
// To go directly to the datadictionary, we'll increase the stream’s
// current position to with 96 (0x60).
// 96 because, 28 for Standard fields 68 for NT-specific fields
// From here DataDictionary starts...and its of total 128 bytes.
//
// DataDictionay has 16 directories in total, doing simple maths 128/16 = 8.
// So each directory is of 8 bytes. In this 8 bytes, 4 bytes is of RVA and 4 bytes of Size.
// By the way, the 15th directory consist of CLR header! if its 0, its not a CLR file :)
dataDictionaryStart = Convert.ToUInt16(Convert.ToUInt16(fs.Position) + dataDirectoriesOffset);
fs.Position = dataDictionaryStart;
for (int i = 0; i < 15; i++)
{
dllInfo.directories[i] = new DataDictionay(reader.ReadUInt32(), reader.ReadUInt32());
}
fs.Close();
return(dllInfo);
}
/// <summary>
/// When overriden in a derived class, it allows the PLuginManager to load plugins from an unmanaged Dll file.
/// By default no unmanaged plugins are loaded.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="dll">A DllInfo object which contains information about the file which contains the plugins to load</param>
protected virtual void LoadPluginsFromUnmanagedDll(DllInfo dll)
{
}