On Sep 17, 2013, at 4:04 AM, Nick Kew <n...@apache.org> wrote:

> 
> On 17 Sep 2013, at 10:09, Ethan Lai wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm going to write a plugin, which needs to store some meta data in memory.
>> Would like to know are there any ways to use InkHashTable data structure in 
>> my implementation? 
> 
> Using the plugin API, nope.  No such useful tools exposed.
> 
> At your own risk, yes of course you can #include the header and use the lib.
> 
> Which begs a question I'd like to ask: is there any good reason now not to
> expose a lot more header files and a much richer API?  So the answer to
> this question would be an obvious yes (and a plugin developer wouldn't
> have to ask)!

I'm generally against exposing "platform" functionality in the TSAPI. There's a 
zillion hash table implementations out there; it should be pretty easy to pull 
an appropriate one into your plugin.

J

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