[jguidroz]

Is there any documentation, official or unofficial, about writing a module for the Server Admin app?

[jguidroz]

Ok, I know there is a plugin api for the Server Admin application, but I haven't been able to locate anything on Apple's site.

I guess no else has had a need to write a Server Admin plugin.

[Angus_D]

Contact DTS. If you're a commercial application, they may be able to license the API to you, or something. Otherwise, class-dump is your friend

[jguidroz]

Well as of right now, I'm just looking to write a plugin into the server admin app to do basically what a shareware program does as a standalone app. Guess class dump will be my friend.

Juice

[jguidroz]

Well, it looks like Server Admin is actually not a cocoa application. Running class-dump produced no output. Running otool -ov produced

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ServerControl.framework/Versions/A/ServerControl:
Objective-C segment
can't print objective-C information no (__OBJC,__module_info) section

BTW, found a ServerControl.framework that did give me a ServerAdmin.h header but with no file info. Anyway to do a class dump on carbon applications??

[Angus_D]

From a cursory look, it would seem that the PlugIn bundles' main classes are subclasses of ServerController, which is a class that is built-in to the Server Admin executable. You can run class-dump on the executable to get the interface, and then you can use the -bundle_loader link flag to specify that executable to resolve the symbols against.

Standard warnings about fragile private APIs apply. Don't do this unless you have to and don't care about the fact that this could break horrendously in the next release.

[jguidroz]

Grrr, figured out my error. Damn .app at the end of the name. Now let''s see if I can get someplace now.