Plug-in System

Learn about how things happen in Pyblish.

Introduction

There are three ways in which a plug-in is associated with a particular set of data.

1. By availability

2. By host

3. By family

Availability is determined by registering a given plug-in to Pyblish, for example by calling register_plugin_path(). Once a plug-in is made available, it must also match the currently running host.

class MyPlugin(...):
  hosts = ["maya"]

If the host matches, a plug-in is put to the final test; it's supported families.

class MyPlugin(...):
  families = ["myFamily"]

See also

• Plugin.hosts

Data

These data members are included.

Data	Description
currentFile	Current working file
workspaceDir	Higher-level directory of current file
user	Currently logged on user
cwd	Current working directory (of Python interpreter)

Example

import pyblish.util
context = pyblish.util.collect()
print context.data["currentFile"]

[2]: https://github.com/pyblish/pyblish.api/wiki/Plugin.hosts