4. Communicating data between two plugins

Communicating data between two plugins

  • H

    On 13/04/2015 at 07:57, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    I have two plugins that live in different Python Plugin files. I know that we can use the Message system
    to pass Python objects around Python Plugins, but this only works with NodeData Plugins like Objects,
    Tags, etc.

    Plugin B provides a GUI that Plugin A needs data from. As it only implements a GUI, there is only a
    CommandData in Plugin B. How can I allow Plugin A to communicate with Plugin B and exchange
    Pythonic data?

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  • H

    On 13/04/2015 at 15:07, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    Is it too simple/obvious or blundering to use maybe just a global basecontainer, populate that from the gui, and read from it with the nodedata plugin..

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  • H

    On 14/04/2015 at 00:20, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    Hi Eclektrik,

    I can not just put any Python object in a BaseContainer, and I would have to place the container
    somewhere Plugin A can find it, eg. in the World or Plugin Data Container. I would prefer to exchange
    any Python objects between the Plugins.

    However, I just got the idea that I could just make an Object or Tag
    plugin, add methods it that should function as the API, and it does
    not need to be inserted in the document.

    def get_api() :
    return c4d.BaseTag(ID_MY_API_PLUGIN).GetNodeData()

    Cheers,
    Niklas

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  • H

    On 14/04/2015 at 08:11, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    Hi Niklas,

    How would yo use your function get_api()?

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  • H

    On 14/04/2015 at 08:55, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    Hi Yannick,

    my_plugin.pyp

    import c4d
  
class MyAPI(c4d.plugins.TagData) :
    PLUGIN_ID = 124242  # just a random ID, not registered
  
    def get_welcome_message(self) :
        return "Hello from my_plugin.pyp!"
  
if __name__ == "__main__":
    # register MyAPI as a TagPlugin ...
    pass

    Script Manager

    def get_my_api() :
    return c4d.BaseTag(124242).GetNodeData()
  
api = get_my_api()
print api.get_welcome_message()

    I'll write a blog post in a few days and will link it here.

    Cheers,
    Niklas

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  • H

    On 14/04/2015 at 10:32, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    I wonder how

    c4d.BaseTag(124242).GetNodeData()

    can return a valid BaseTag there if the TagData is not registered?

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  • H

    On 14/04/2015 at 10:40, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    I wanted to keep the snippet short so I only added a comment that MyAPI needs to be registered. Reread the snippet :)

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  • H

    On 14/04/2015 at 10:51, xxxxxxxx wrote:

    Originally posted by xxxxxxxx

    I wanted to keep the snippet short so I only added a comment that MyAPI needs to be registered. Reread the snippet :)

    Ah ok 🙂. The comment for PLUGIN_ID confused me:

    PLUGIN_ID = 124242  # just a random ID, not registered
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