Add custom 404 error message with link to "Create a New User" which is displayed when linkname in User Profile Developer view URL (/site/user/profile/<linkname>) doesn't exist. Add default value (None) to new_suffix parameter of template_helpers replaceSuffix and redirectToChangedSuffix functions.
#!/usr/bin/python2.5
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"""Helpers used to render response.
"""
__authors__ = [
'"Todd Larsen" <tlarsen@google.com>',
'"Pawel Solyga" <pawel.solyga@gmail.com>',
]
import logging
import urlparse
from google.appengine.api import users
from django import http
from django.template import loader
# DeadlineExceededError can live in two different places
try:
# When deployed
from google.appengine.runtime import DeadlineExceededError
except ImportError:
# In the development server
from google.appengine.runtime.apiproxy_errors import DeadlineExceededError
from soc.logic import system
from soc.logic.site import id_user
def respond(request, template, context=None, response_args=None):
"""Helper to render a response, passing standard stuff to the response.
Args:
request: the Django HTTP request object
template: the template (or search list of templates) to render
context: the context supplied to the template (implements dict)
response_args: keyword arguments passed to http.HttpResponse()
(response_args['content'] is created with
render_to_string(template, dictionary=context) if it is not present)
Returns:
django.shortcuts.render_to_response(template, context) results
Raises:
Any exceptions that django.template.loader.render_to_string() or
django.http.HttpResponse() might raise.
"""
context = getUniversalContext(request, context=context)
if response_args is None:
response_args = {}
try:
response_args['content'] = response_args.get(
'content', loader.render_to_string(template, dictionary=context))
return http.HttpResponse(**response_args)
except DeadlineExceededError:
logging.exception('DeadlineExceededError')
return http.HttpResponse('DeadlineExceededError')
except MemoryError:
logging.exception('MemoryError')
return http.HttpResponse('MemoryError')
except AssertionError:
logging.exception('AssertionError')
return http.HttpResponse('AssertionError')
def getUniversalContext(request, context=None):
"""Constructs a template context dict will many common variables defined.
Args:
request: the Django HTTP request object
context: the template context dict to be updated in-place (pass in a copy
if the original must not be modified), or None if a new one is to be
created; any existing fields already present in the context dict passed
in by the caller are left unaltered
Returns:
updated template context dict supplied by the caller, or a new context
dict if the caller supplied None
{
'request': the Django HTTP request object passed in by the caller
'id': the logged-in Google Account if there is one
'user': the User entity corresponding to the Google Account in
context['id']
'is_admin': True if users.is_current_user_admin() is True
'is_debug': True if system.isDebug() is True
'sign_in': a Google Account login URL
'sign_out': a Google Account logout URL
}
"""
if context is None:
context = {}
# set some universal values if caller did not already set them
context['request'] = context.get('request', request)
context['id'] = id_user.getIdIfMissing(context.get('id', None))
context['user'] = id_user.getUserIfMissing(context.get('user', None),
context['id'])
context['is_admin'] = context.get(
'is_admin', id_user.isIdDeveloper(id=context['id']))
context['is_debug'] = context.get('is_debug', system.isDebug())
context['sign_in'] = context.get(
'sign_in', users.create_login_url(request.path))
context['sign_out'] = context.get(
'sign_out', users.create_logout_url(request.path))
return context
def replaceSuffix(path, old_suffix, new_suffix=None, params=None):
"""Replace the last part of a URL path with something else.
Also appends an optional list of query parameters. Used for
replacing, for example, one link name at the end of a relative
URL path with another.
Args:
path: HTTP request relative URL path (with no query arguments)
old_suffix: expected suffix at the end of request.path component;
if any False value (such as None), the empty string '' is used
new_suffix: if non-False, appended to request.path along with a
'/' separator (after removing old_suffix if necessary)
params: an optional dictionary of query parameters to append to
the redirect target; appended as ?<key1>=<value1>&<key2>=...
Returns:
/path/with/new_suffix?a=1&b=2
"""
if not old_suffix:
old_suffix = ''
old_suffix = '/' + old_suffix
if path.endswith(old_suffix):
# also removes any trailing '/' if old_suffix was empty
path = path[:-len(old_suffix)]
if new_suffix:
# if present, appends new_suffix, after '/' separator
path = '%s/%s' % (path, new_suffix)
if params:
# appends any query parameters, after a '?' and separated by '&'
path = '%s?%s' % (path, '&'.join(
['%s=%s' % (p,v) for p,v in params.iteritems()]))
return path
def redirectToChangedSuffix(
request, old_suffix, new_suffix=None, params=None):
"""Changes suffix of URL path and returns an HTTP redirect response.
Args:
request: the Django HTTP request object; redirect path is derived from
request.path
old_suffix, new_suffix, params: see replaceSuffix()
Returns:
a Django HTTP redirect response pointing to the altered path
"""
path = replaceSuffix(request.path, old_suffix, new_suffix, params=params)
return http.HttpResponseRedirect(path)
def isReferrerSelf(request,
expected_prefix=None, suffix=None):
"""Returns True if HTTP referrer path starts with the HTTP request path.
Args:
request: the Django HTTP request object; request.path is used if
expected_path is not supplied (the most common usage)
expected_prefix: optional HTTP path to use instead of the one in
request.path; default is None (use request.path)
suffix: suffix to remove from the HTTP request path before comparing
it to the HTTP referrer path in the HTTP request object headers
(this is often an link name, for example, that may be changing from
a POST referrer to a GET redirect target)
Returns:
True if HTTP referrer path begins with the HTTP request path (either
request.path or expected_prefix instead if it was supplied), after
any suffix was removed from that request path
False otherwise
"""
http_from = request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER')
if not http_from:
# no HTTP referrer, so cannot possibly start with expected prefix
return False
from_path = urlparse.urlparse(http_from).path
if not expected_prefix:
# use HTTP request path, since expected_prefix was not supplied
expected_prefix = request.path
if suffix:
# remove suffix (such as a link name) before comparison
chars_to_remove = len(suffix)
if not suffix.startswith('/'):
chars_to_remove = chars_to_remove + 1
expected_prefix = expected_prefix[:-chars_to_remove]
if not from_path.startswith(expected_prefix):
# expected prefix did not match first part of HTTP referrer path
return False
# HTTP referrer started with (possibly truncated) expected prefix
return True