Will's blog

Yesterday I slam-dunked some code to form some infrastructure for plugin modules--I figured I've done this for Lyntin and Stringbean, might as well go for the hat trick! The code allows us to build a set of callback chains and such to let people extend the functionality of pyblosxom without having to re-write pyblosxom internals. Blah blah standard plugin stuff.

At some point, I'll write a tutorial to use it beyond the brief documentation I left in the api module. Until then, I leave the following excerpt for how it all ties together using the pycalendar module as an example.

01: """
02: This is my fancy pyfortune module.  Basically what it's going to do
03: is call /usr/local/bin/fortune and populate the fortune variable
04: with the resulting string.
05: """
06: import commands
07: from libs import api, tools
08: 
09: class PyFortune:
10:   def __init__(self):
11:     self._fortune = None
12: 
13:   def getFortune(self, args):
14:     entry_dict = args[0]
15:     text_string = args[1]
16:     if self._fortune == None:
17:       self._fortune = commands.getoutput("/usr/games/fortune")
18: 
19:     return (entry_dict, tools.parse({"fortune": self._fortune}, text_string))
20: 
21: def initialize():
22:   api.parseitem.register(PyFortune().getFortune)

Figure 1: libs/plugins/pyfortune.py

Mmm... It occurs to me that this doesn't use the api module at all. On the other hand, it's pretty neat looking, so I'll leave it for now. At some point someone is going to have to remind me to write an api usage example.

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