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.
import cStringIO, zipfile
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.template import loader
def compress_kml(kml):
"Returns compressed KMZ from the given KML string."
kmz = cStringIO.StringIO()
zf = zipfile.ZipFile(kmz, 'a', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED, False)
zf.writestr('doc.kml', kml)
zf.close()
kmz.seek(0)
return kmz.read()
def render_to_kml(*args, **kwargs):
"Renders the response as KML (using the correct MIME type)."
return HttpResponse(loader.render_to_string(*args, **kwargs),
mimetype='application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml kml')
def render_to_kmz(*args, **kwargs):
"""
Compresses the KML content and returns as KMZ (using the correct
MIME type).
"""
return HttpResponse(compress_kml(loader.render_to_string(*args, **kwargs)),
mimetype='application/vnd.google-earth.kmz')
def render_to_text(*args, **kwargs):
"Renders the response using the MIME type for plain text."
return HttpResponse(loader.render_to_string(*args, **kwargs),
mimetype='text/plain')