def getSidebarItems(params):

  """Retrieves a list of sidebar entries for this view

  Params usage:

    The params dictionary is provided to the menu_text's format.

    sidebar: The sidebar value is returned directly if non-False

    sidebar_defaults: The sidebar_defaults are used to construct the

      sidebar items for this View. It is expected to be a tuple of

      three items, the item's url, it's menu_text, and it's

      access_type, see getSidebarLinks on how access_type is used.

    sidebar_additional: The sidebar_additional values are appended

      to the list of items verbatim, and should be in the format

      expected by getSidebarLinks.

  Args:

    params: a dict with params for this View.

  """

  # Return the found result

  if params['sidebar']:

    return params['sidebar']

  # Construct defaults manualy

  defaults = params['sidebar_defaults']

  result = []

  for url, menu_text, access_type in defaults:

    url = url % params['url_name'].lower()

    item = (url, menu_text % params, access_type)

    result.append(item)

  for item in params['sidebar_additional']:

    result.append(item)

  return result

def getSidebarLinks(request, params=None):

  """Returns an dictionary with one sidebar entry.

  Calls getSidebarItems to retrieve the items that should be in the

  menu. Expected is a tuple with an url, a menu_text, and an

  access_type. The access_type is then passed to checkAccess, if it

  raises out_of_band.Error, the item will not be added.

  Args:

    request: the django request object

    params: a dict with params for this View

  Params usage:

    The params dictionary is passed as argument to getSidebarItems,

      see the docstring of getSidebarItems on how it uses it.

    rights: The rights dictionary is used to check if the user has

      the required rights to see a sidebar item.

      See checkAccess for more details on how the rights dictionary

      is used to check access rights.

    sidebar_heading: The sidebar_heading value is used to set the

      heading variable in the result.

    name: The name value is used if sidebar_heading is not present.

  Returns: A dictionary is returned with it's 'heading' value set

    as explained above. It's 'items' value is constructed by

    calling _getSidebarItems. It constists of dictionaries with a

    url and a title field.

  """

  rights = params['rights']

  items = []

  for url, menu_text, access_type in getSidebarItems(params):

    try:

      access.checkAccess(access_type, request, rights)

      items.append({'url': url, 'title': menu_text})

    except out_of_band.Error:

      pass

  if not items:

    return

  res = {}

  if 'sidebar_heading' not in params:

    params['sidebar_heading'] = params['name']

  res['heading'] = params['sidebar_heading']

  res['items'] = items

  return res