UserInfoboxHook¶

Rendering Infobox Content¶

When rendering additional content for a user infobox, the template will contain all data normally provided for a page (through Django’s RequestContext), along with:

extension:

Your extension’s instance.

user:

The User model being viewed in the infobox.

The infobox will render the template passed to the hook during initialization. This uses standard Django templates.

When subclassing, additional information can be provided by overriding get_extra_context() and returning a dictionary of context variables for the template.

Subclasses can also completely change the rendering behavior by overriding render().

Controlling Caching¶

A rendered infobox is cached in order to prevent having to repeatedly ask the server to re-render the contents. ETag headers are used to ensure this. By default, the following data related to the user is included in the cache key:

• Username
• User’s first name
• User’s last name
• User’s e-mail address
• Time the user last explicitly logged in
• Configured timezone for the user
• Whether profile information is public or private
• Avatar-specific data

If the data being added to the infobox by the hook can change, and those changes aren’t based on the above information, the extension may want to subclass the hook and override get_etag_data(). This would return a string (of any length) representative of the dynamic state of the infobox.

Examples¶

from reviewboard.extensions.base import Extension
from reviewboard.extensions.hooks import UserInfoboxHook


class SampleUserInfoboxHook(UserInfoboxHook):
    def initialize(self):
        super(SampleUserInfoboxHook, self).initialize(
            'myextension/advanced-user-infobox.html')

    def get_etag_data(self, user, request, local_site, **kwargs):
        return self.extension.get_user_quote_of_the_day(user)

    def get_extra_context(self, user, request, local_site, **kwargs):
        return {
            'is_bob': user.username == 'bob',
            'quote': self.extension.get_user_quote_of_the_day(),
        }


class SampleExtension(Extension):
    def initialize(self):
        # Add a simple hook that just renders a basic template.
        UserInfoboxHook(self, 'myextension/basic-user-infobox.html')

        # Add a more advanced hook that provides custom caching and
        # rendering.
        SampleUserInfoboxHook(self)

    def get_user_quote_of_the_day(self, user):
        return 'something fancy would go here'