app/soc/logic/validate.py
author Todd Larsen <tlarsen@google.com>
Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:19:44 +0000
changeset 426 114fe0f840c8
parent 389 9b873166d7d5
child 462 1f164cd0529b
permissions -rw-r--r--
Add tooltips style display of help_text, instead of widening the form with another (often ridiculously large) column. Also, version the .css and .js files so that browsers won't display the wrong cached one when we change something. Patch by: Dmitri Gaskin, Todd Larsen Review by: Todd Larsen

#!/usr/bin/python2.5
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"""Common validation helper functions.
"""

__authors__ = [
  '"Pawel Solyga" <pawel.solyga@gmail.com>',
  ]


import feedparser

from google.appengine.api import urlfetch

from soc.logic import path_link_name


def isFeedURLValid(feed_url=None):
  """Returns True if provided url is valid ATOM or RSS.

  Args:
    feed_url: ATOM or RSS feed url
  """
  if feed_url:
    result = urlfetch.fetch(feed_url)
    if result.status_code == 200:
      parsed_feed = feedparser.parse(result.content)
      if parsed_feed.version and (parsed_feed.version != ''):
        return True
  return False


def isLinkNameFormatValid(link_name):
  """Returns True if link_name is in a valid format.

  Args:
    link_name: link name used in URLs for identification
  """
  if path_link_name.LINKNAME_REGEX.match(link_name):
    return True
  return False