app/soc/logic/validate.py
author Pawel Solyga <Pawel.Solyga@gmail.com>
Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:44:02 +0000
changeset 568 6713617751b4
parent 533 ba3309b2fd30
child 1307 091a21cf3627
permissions -rw-r--r--
Remove inheritance from PolyModel in Answer and Linkable model. Replace PolyModel inheritance with base.ModelWithFieldAttributes. A little explanation why we are trying to get rid of PolyModel. We decided to use PolyModel in order to get support for model inheritance in App Engine, however as we know this was a hacky workaround which added inheritance_line property to each model. Recent commits which added Linkable model caused our data viewer in admin console to show only one model "Linkable" since all of the classes inherited from it. Basically datastore viewer was useless plus we had a really big mess in datastore since everything was of one kind (Linkable). It's almost like creating one huge table in SQL database. Upcoming commits will eliminate all usage of PolyModel and finally remove PolyModel from our repository. We are still using inheritance however this doesn't modify how models are saved in data store so basically it's like copy and paste of properties from parent models. Patch by: Pawel Solyga, Sverre Rabbelier

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

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


import feedparser

from google.appengine.api import urlfetch

from soc.models import linkable


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 isLinkIdFormatValid(link_id):
  """Returns True if link_id is in a valid format.

  Args:
    link_id: link ID used in URLs for identification
  """
  if linkable.LINK_ID_REGEX.match(link_id):
    return True
  return False


def isScopePathFormatValid(scope_path):
  """Returns True if scope_path is in a valid format.
  
  Args:
    scope_path: scope path prepended to link ID
      used for identification.
  """
   
  if linkable.SCOPE_PATH_REGEX.match(scope_path):
    return True
  
  return False