# PluginConnectionService

Roblox Engine API class from Roblox Studio 0.744.0.7441077 (version-7aaa6838d36c4448).

- Inherits from, nearest first: [Instance](https://rapi.sleaze.dev/classes/Instance.md), [Object](https://rapi.sleaze.dev/classes/Object.md)
- Tags: Not creatable, Not replicated, Service
- Memory category: Instances
- HTML page: https://rapi.sleaze.dev/classes/PluginConnectionService/
- Roblox documentation: https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/PluginConnectionService

This service is used by plugins to communicate with other instances of themselves running in other data models.

## Methods

### CanHaveConnectionType

```luau
PluginConnectionService:CanHaveConnectionType(type: Enum.PluginConnectionTargetType): boolean
```

- Tags: Plugin security

Checks if the current data model context can ever have connections of a given type.

Parameters:

- `type`: The connection type to check.

Returns: Whether the current data model can potentially have connections of the given type.

### GetPluginConnectionsOfType

```luau
PluginConnectionService:GetPluginConnectionsOfType(type: Enum.PluginConnectionTargetType): { any }
```

- Tags: Plugin security

Returns a list of currently connected [`PluginConnection`](https://rapi.sleaze.dev/classes/PluginConnection.md) objects with the given connection type.

Parameters:

- `type`: The connection type to check.

Returns: An array of the currently connected [`PluginConnection`](https://rapi.sleaze.dev/classes/PluginConnection.md) objects with that target type.

## Events

### Connected

```luau
PluginConnectionService.Connected: RBXScriptSignal<(conn: PluginConnection)>
```

- Tags: Plugin security

Fires just after a new [`PluginConnection`](https://rapi.sleaze.dev/classes/PluginConnection.md) successfully connects.

## Inherited members

- From [Instance](https://rapi.sleaze.dev/classes/Instance.md): `Archivable`, `archivable`, `Attributes`, `AttributesReplicate`, `AttributesSerialize`, `HistoryId`, `Name`, `Parent`, `PredictionMode`, `PropertyStatusStudio`, `RobloxLocked`, `SerializedOverrides`, `SourceAssetId`, `Tags`, `UniqueId`, `numExpectedDirectChildren`, `DataCost`, `Capabilities`, `DefinesCapabilities`, `IsInSandbox`, `Sandboxed`, `AddTag`, `ClearAllChildren`, `Clone`, `Destroy`, `FindFirstAncestor`, `FindFirstAncestorOfClass`, `FindFirstAncestorWhichIsA`, `FindFirstChild`, `FindFirstChildOfClass`, `FindFirstChildWhichIsA`, `FindFirstDescendant`, `GetActor`, `GetAttribute`, `GetAttributeChangedSignal`, `GetAttributes`, `GetChildren`, `GetDebugId`, `GetDescendants`, `GetFullName`, `GetStyled`, `GetStyledPropertyChangedSignal`, `GetTags`, `HasTag`, `IsAncestorOf`, `IsDescendantOf`, `IsPropertyModified`, `QueryDescendants`, `RemoveTag`, `ResetPropertyToDefault`, `SetAttribute`, `WaitForChild`, `Remove`, `children`, `clone`, `destroy`, `findFirstChild`, `getChildren`, `isDescendantOf`, `remove`, `AncestryChanged`, `AttributeChanged`, `ChildAdded`, `ChildRemoved`, `DescendantAdded`, `DescendantRemoving`, `Destroying`, `StyledPropertiesChanged`, `childAdded`
- From [Object](https://rapi.sleaze.dev/classes/Object.md): `ClassName`, `className`, `GetPropertyChangedSignal`, `IsA`, `isA`, `Changed`