Plugins

Plugins are a means for revenge to expose support in a general way. Plugins are dynamically loaded at runtime based on the current engine and compatability of the process for this plugin.

Building a Plugin

To build a plugin, you must extend the Plugin class. The general layout is:

  • Create new submodule under revenge.plugins. This will be the core of the plugin and should have __no__ dependencies on any specific engine

  • Create a submodule under revenge.engines.<engine>. This should extend the plugin class created above, and fill in any engine specific properties. NOTE: it’s possible to create a plugin that is completely independent of any engine. In this case, the submodule here would simply extend the plugin class you created in step 1 and do nothing.

  • Implement _is_valid. This property is called after instantiation to allow the plugin to determine if it wants to register in the current environment or not.

That’s it. You should now have a working plugin.

Registering a Plugin

Your plugin will automatically register to the base process object if you return True for _is_valid. However, you can also dynamically register your plugin in a few different locations.

Registering a Module Plugin

Module plugins end up instantiated under Module.<plugin>. For instance:

# "plugin" here is where your plugin would end up
# It will get instantiated with the module that it is called from
process.modules['my_process'].plugin

If your plugin would likely be specific per module, you can register it as a module plugin. To do this, simply call revenge.modules.Modules._register_plugin() with your class instantiator as well as a name for the plugin. If successful, your plugin will now show up under the module object.

Example of how to do this can be found in the API docs.