"""The base Controller API

Provides the BaseController class for subclassing.
"""
from pylons.controllers import WSGIController
from pylons.templating import render_mako as render
from pylons import config
from floof import model

from pylons import session, tmpl_context as c
from floof.model.users import User

class BaseController(WSGIController):

    # NOTE: This could have been implemented as a middleware =]
    def __before__(self, action, **params):
        # Fetch current user object
        try:
            c.user = User.query.get(session['user_id'])
        except:
            pass

    def __call__(self, environ, start_response):
        """Invoke the Controller"""
        # WSGIController.__call__ dispatches to the Controller method
        # the request is routed to. This routing information is
        # available in environ['pylons.routes_dict']

        # Insert any code to be run per request here.

        try:
            return WSGIController.__call__(self, environ, start_response)
        finally:
            model.Session.remove()