Refactor the sidebar to use Django templates
With this change the html for the sidebar is no longer generated by
Melange, instead it's delegated to Django (which is what it does
best anyway). The downside is that it is no longer possible to have
arbitrary deeply nested menu's.
from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib.syndication.feeds import Feed
from django.contrib.sites.models import Site
from django.contrib import comments
class LatestCommentFeed(Feed):
"""Feed of latest comments on the current site."""
def title(self):
if not hasattr(self, '_site'):
self._site = Site.objects.get_current()
return u"%s comments" % self._site.name
def link(self):
if not hasattr(self, '_site'):
self._site = Site.objects.get_current()
return "http://%s/" % (self._site.domain)
def description(self):
if not hasattr(self, '_site'):
self._site = Site.objects.get_current()
return u"Latest comments on %s" % self._site.name
def items(self):
qs = comments.get_model().objects.filter(
site__pk = settings.SITE_ID,
is_public = True,
is_removed = False,
)
if getattr(settings, 'COMMENTS_BANNED_USERS_GROUP', None):
where = ['user_id NOT IN (SELECT user_id FROM auth_user_groups WHERE group_id = %s)']
params = [settings.COMMENTS_BANNED_USERS_GROUP]
qs = qs.extra(where=where, params=params)
return qs.order_by('-submit_date')[:40]
def item_pubdate(self, item):
return item.submit_date