Feature Flags in Components

[csykes]

Hey @magicteddy,

I searched the forums to find this _OBSOLETE class appendage to see what it does and fount this snippet;

Long Quote

@Michael_Pryor

Name the class with _OBSOLETE

So something like

public class Component_ConstructPoint : GH_Component

would become

public class Component_ConstructPoint_OBSOLETE : GH_Component

That will make it have the “old” tag written over the component icon

Then set its exposure to hidden so it only comes up when searching with #
You can find all GH old components by searching with # so for instance in this case you can search #ConstructPoint to still get access to it in gh.

For that you do:

public override GH_Exposure Exposure
{
get
{
return GH_Exposure.hidden;
}
}

So I tried overriding Exposure like this, which works perfectly!

public override GH_Exposure Exposure
{
	get
	{
		if (FeatureFlagIsEnabled)
		{
			return base.Exposure;
		}
		else
		{
			return GH_Exposure.hidden;
		}
	}
}