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diff --git a/docs/source/pluginwriter/api.rst b/docs/source/pluginwriter/api.rst index 0d5c82d8..b411fa4d 100644 --- a/docs/source/pluginwriter/api.rst +++ b/docs/source/pluginwriter/api.rst @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ mediagoblin/user_pages/routing.py and see:: Aha! That means that the name is ``mediagoblin.user_pages.user_home``. Okay, so then we look at the view at the -``mediagoblin.user_pages.views:user_home`` method:: +``mediagoblin.user_pages.user_home`` method:: @uses_pagination def user_home(request, page): @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Nice! So the template appears to be ``mediagoblin/user_pages/user.html``. Cool, that means that the key is:: - ("mediagoblin.user_pages.views:user_home", + ("mediagoblin.user_pages.user_home", "mediagoblin/user_pages/user.html") The context hook uses ``hook_transform()`` so that means that if we're @@ -102,11 +102,26 @@ and should return that modified object, like so:: return context hooks = { - ("mediagoblin.user_pages.views:user_home", + ("mediagoblin.user_pages.user_home", "mediagoblin/user_pages/user.html"): add_to_user_home_context} Global context hook +++++++++++++++++++ +If you need to add something to the context of *every* view, it is not +hard; there are two hooks hook that also uses hook_transform (like the +above) but make available what you are providing to *every* view. +Note that there is a slight, but critical, difference between the two. + +The most general one is the ``'template_global_context'`` hook. This +one is run only once, and is read into the global context... all views +will get access to what are in this dict. + +The slightly more expensive but more powerful one is +``'template_context_prerender'``. This one is not added to the global +context... it is added to the actual context of each individual +template render right before it is run! Because of this you also can +do some powerful and crazy things, such as checking the request object +or other parts of the context before passing them on. |