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# IVLE - Informatics Virtual Learning Environment
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# Copyright (C) 2007-2009 The University of Melbourne
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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# Author: Matt Giuca, Will Grant
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class BasePlugin(object):
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Base class for all Plugin classes.
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class ViewPlugin(BasePlugin):
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"""Marker class for plugins that provide views.
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View plugins must have a 'urls' property which contains an iterable of pairs
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or triples, like (routex string, handler class, kwargs dict). The kwargs
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dict is optional. If present, the members of the kwargs dict will be passed
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as keyword arguments to the constructor of the view object.
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class OverlayPlugin(BasePlugin):
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Marker class for plugins which provide overlays.
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Overlay plugins provide mini-views which can be displayed on top of other
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views. The canonical example of a plugin of this type is the Console plugin.
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class CookiePlugin(BasePlugin):
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"""Marker class for plugins which provide cookies.
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Cookie plugins provide a 'cookies' dict mapping names to generation
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functions. The function should return the data to store in the cookie on
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login. If the function is None, the cookie is not created on login, just