Support stuff-other-than-updates.

[zzz-spline-frontpage.git] / splinext / frontpage / controllers / frontpage.py

diff --git a/splinext/frontpage/controllers/frontpage.py b/splinext/frontpage/controllers/frontpage.py
index c9f779a..fdb0b4c 100644 (file)
--- a/splinext/frontpage/controllers/frontpage.py
+++ b/splinext/frontpage/controllers/frontpage.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ from sqlalchemy.orm.exc import NoResultFound
 
 from spline.lib import helpers as h
 from spline.lib.base import BaseController, render
+from spline.lib.plugin.load import run_hooks
 from spline.model import meta
 from splinext.frontpage.sources import max_age_to_datetime
 
@@ -45,6 +46,13 @@ class FrontPageController(BaseController):
 
             run_hooks('frontpage_updates_updatetype', opt1=val1, opt2=val2)
 
+        Plugins may also respond to the `frontpage_extras` hook with other
+        interesting things to put on the front page.  There's no way to
+        customize the order of these extras or which appear and which don't, at
+        the moment.  Such hooks should return an object with at least a
+        `template` attribute; the template will be called with the object
+        passed in as its `obj` argument.
+
         Local plugins can override the fairly simple index.mako template to
         customize the front page layout.
         """
@@ -93,11 +101,21 @@ class FrontPageController(BaseController):
         if c.user:
             c.user.stash['frontpage-last-seen-time'] = now
             meta.Session.add(c.user)
-            meta.Session.commit()
         else:
             response.set_cookie('frontpage-last-seen-time', now)
 
         # Done!  Feed to template
         c.updates = updates
 
-        return render('/index.mako')
+        # Hook for non-update interesting things to put on the front page.
+        # This hook should return objects with a 'template' attribute, and
+        # whatever else they need
+        c.extras = run_hooks('frontpage_extras')
+
+        ret = render('/index.mako')
+
+        # Commit AFTER rendering the template!  Committing invalidates
+        # everything in the session, undoing any eagerloading that may have
+        # been done by sources
+        meta.Session.commit()
+        return ret