Using classes from another plugin

Hey,

I have Player class which is currently inline in my main plugin, however, I would like to use this class in several plugins. How can I achieve this?

 

something like this?

Code:

using Oxide.Core.Plugins;
namespace Oxide.Plugins
{
    [Info("Main Plugin", "Zhahaman2001", 1.0, ResourceId = 0)]
    class MainPlugin : RustPlugin
    {
        [PluginReference]
        Plugin OtherPlugin;
        string GetStringFromOtherPlugin(string PassThis)
        {
            string ReturnString = OtherPlugin?.Call("SendHelloMessage", PassThis) as string;
            return ReturnString;
        }
    }
}

Code:

namespace Oxide.Plugins
{
    [Info("Other Plugin", "Zhahaman2001", 1.0, ResourceId = 0)]
    class OtherPlugin : RustPlugin
    {
        string SendHelloMessage(string PassThis)
        {
            return "Hello world - " + PassThis;
        }
    }
}

 

Well at the moment You can try to parse the class in a dictionary to be called by another plugin And then unparse it to the class.
It' s a huge workaround, but at the moment there is no other way.
You could also save it as a class inside a file And load it from the other plugin, but that's worse as it Will use a lot of resource to save And load a filé especially if it's big

 

The nice thing about shipping a single .cs file is that its really easy for people use - and this is really important. For this reason, I also dislike dependencies between mods - you're just making it more complex for people to use your mod.

The down side is that does indeed put some handcuffs on us as developers. For more complex plug-ins, I really want don't everything in a single class, I don't much care for nested classes, and having to work in a single 700 (and growing) line file is cumbersome. (It also makes unit testing hard).

So, I choose to view the final .cs file as just the delivery package. I've split my work across multiple files, and so I can work as I like. Then I use a small script (written in PowerShell), to assemble all the parts back into a single file. My little script is very specific to the mod I'm working on, but I'm certain it could be generalized for more cases - I'd probably look at using .Net T4 templates for doing this.

For smaller mods, just stick with a single .cs file, and cut and paste your library code around.

Just my 2c.