Woodpecker provides a communication channel between mac client and app, and defines a friendly Api for developer, so we can custom a plugin tool very easily.

Create a plugin:

Create a service, and implements it’s action list.
Register the service.
Use the service at mac client.

Now We’ll implement a service called “EchoService” to show these processes in detail.

Demo Code

1. Create a service

ADHService class represent a service in woodpecker, so we create a subclass of ADHService named “EchoService”.

@interface EchoService : ADHService

@end

A service has a name, and has a list of action. here we named it “adh.EchoService”, and define an action named “echo”.

@implementation EchoService

+ (NSString *)serviceName
{
    return @"adh.EchoService";
}

+ (NSDictionary *)<NSString *,NSString *>actionList
{
    return @{
            	@"echo" : @selector(onRequestEcho:), 
            };
}

/*
this handler will be called on receiving a request whose service named "adh.EchoService", action named "echo". 
request parameter could carry a dictionary body and a binary payload.
and you must call [request finish] or other finsh method to response the request.
*/
- (void)onRequestEcho: (ADHRequest *)request
{
    NSDictioanry * body = request.body;
    NSData * payload = request.payload;
    /**
        your code
    */
    [request finish];
}

@end

2. Register service

before use EchoService, you should register it.

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];

    [[ADHOrganizer organizer] registerService:[EchoService service]];
}

3. Use service at mac client

There are two way to use a service:

Call service using the mac client’s api tool
Create a mac web plugin, and call the service in the wap page, the web plugin will appear at the toolbar

I’ll show you in detail.

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There are four form you should provide:

Service: which service you want call, here we choose "adh.EchoService".

Action: which action you want call, here we choose "echo".

Body: you can pass a dictionary object(here the dictionary should be a json text) to the request, and you you could fetch it using request.body later, here we fill nothing.

Payload: you can pass a data payload(here should be a file) to the request, and you could fetch it using request.payload later, here we choose nothing.

3.2 Create a mac web client plugin

A web plugin is a bundle stored at the Plugin directory (could be find at the Plugin -> Home menu). A plugin bundle should at least has two files:

index.html （the plugin's index page)
icon.png (the icon will show at tool bar)

in the web page you could call App’s service using the method “adhCallClientApi” (defined in Plugin/adh.bundle/adh.js).

<!-- in html -->
<head>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="../adh.bundle/adhjs.js"></script>
</head>

<body>
  <script type="text/javascript">
    function callService(){
      //call Echoservice
      adhCallClientApi('adh.EchoService','echo','','',function (data,payload){
			
      });
    }
  </script>
</body>

//in adh.bundle/adh.js

/**
call app action of the service

@p service: service name
@p action: action name
@p data: object that could be jsonfy
@p payload: binary data

on response the callback function will be called, the callback could contains a object and a payload depends on your service implentation
*/

function adhCallClientApi(service,action,data,payload,callback)
{
	
}