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.. highlight:: python
:linenothreshold: 5
Writing an HTML e-mail renderer plugin
======================================
An email renderer class controls how the HTML part of e-mails sent by pretix is built.
The creation of such a plugin is very similar to creating an export output.
Please read :ref:`Creating a plugin <pluginsetup>` first, if you haven't already.
Output registration
-------------------
The email HTML renderer API does not make a lot of usage from signals, however, it
does use a signal to get a list of all available email renderers. Your plugin
should listen for this signal and return the subclass of ``pretix.base.email.BaseHTMLMailRenderer``
that we'll provide in this plugin::
from django.dispatch import receiver
from pretix.base.signals import register_html_mail_renderers
@receiver(register_html_mail_renderers, dispatch_uid="renderer_custom")
def register_mail_renderers(sender, **kwargs):
from .email import MyMailRenderer
return MyMailRenderer
The renderer class
------------------
.. class:: pretix.base.email.BaseHTMLMailRenderer
The central object of each email renderer is the subclass of ``BaseHTMLMailRenderer``.
.. py:attribute:: BaseHTMLMailRenderer.event
The default constructor sets this property to the event we are currently
working for.
.. autoattribute:: identifier
This is an abstract attribute, you **must** override this!
.. autoattribute:: verbose_name
This is an abstract attribute, you **must** override this!
.. autoattribute:: thumbnail_filename
This is an abstract attribute, you **must** override this!
.. autoattribute:: is_available
.. automethod:: render
This is an abstract method, you **must** implement this!
Helper class for template-base renderers
----------------------------------------
The email renderer that ships with pretix is based on Django templates to generate HTML.
In case you also want to render emails based on a template, we provided a ready-made base
class ``TemplateBasedMailRenderer`` that you can re-use to perform the following steps:
* Convert the body text and the signature to HTML using our markdown renderer
* Render the template
* Call `inlinestyler`_ to convert all ``<style>`` style sheets to inline ``style=""``
attributes for better compatibility
To use it, you just need to implement some variables::
class ClassicMailRenderer(TemplateBasedMailRenderer):
verbose_name = _('pretix default')
identifier = 'classic'
thumbnail_filename = 'pretixbase/email/thumb.png'
template_name = 'pretixbase/email/plainwrapper.html'
The template is passed the following context variables:
``site``
Name of the pretix installation (``settings.PRETIX_INSTANCE_NAME``)
``site_url``
Root URL of the pretix installation (``settings.SITE_URL``)
``body``
The body as markdown (render with ``{{ body|safe }}``)
``subject``
The email subject
``color``
The primary color of the event
``event``
The ``Event`` object
``signature`` (optional, only if configured)
The signature with event organizer contact details as markdown (render with ``{{ signature|safe }}``)
``order`` (optional, only if applicable)
The ``Order`` object
``position`` (optional, only if applicable)
The ``OrderPosition`` object
.. _inlinestyler: https://pypi.org/project/inlinestyler/