feat: add callbacks on experiment finish

[mgrewe]

Hi,

this is related to this discussion. The PR basically creates functionality to register callbacks that are executed once the experiment has finished.

Thanks, Martin

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[bjoluc]

Thanks for the PR @mgrewe. To me, this solution looks like a workaround for very specific situations. Maybe adding an optional on_experiment_finish callback to extensions would be a better alternative? @jodeleeuw Interested in your thoughts about this.

[jodeleeuw]

I agree that this is a specific situation.

Maybe adding an optional on_experiment_finish callback to extensions would be a better alternative?

I think @mgrewe was proposing such a callback in #2809, and I'm open to that idea.

Another option that doesn't require modification would be to simply expose a function from the extension that can be called for cleanup. (There are several functions like this in the webgazer extension). Then this method can be called in the regular event handler for the experiment finishing. I recognize that this isn't as clean of an option if the cleanup is mandatory -- then the extension should really handle it automatically.

[mgrewe]

Thanks for the feedback. I see your points and also think that the proposed PR somewhat breaks with the design ideas behind the extension/plugin mechanism. I like the idea of @bjoluc to add a class member function on_experiment_finish that may be used for the desired purpose. Do you think adding this might be an option?