Investigate syntactic sugar for plugins

[simonw]

Suggested by @andrewhayward on Twitter: https://twitter.com/arhayward/status/986015118965268480?s=21

Have you considered a basic abstraction on top of that, for standard hook features?

@sql_function
random_integer(a,b):
    return random.randint(a,b)

@template_filter
uppercase(str):
    return str.upper()

Maybe from datasette.plugins import template_filter?

Would have to work out how to get this to play well with pluggy

[simonw]

This could also help workaround the current predicament that a single plugin can only define one prepare_connection hook.

[simonw]

I'm OK with not implementing this - I've got used to the existing mechanism, and it doesn't frustrate me enough to work on this more.