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.
"""
A set of request processors that return dictionaries to be merged into a
template context. Each function takes the request object as its only parameter
and returns a dictionary to add to the context.
These are referenced from the setting TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS and used by
RequestContext.
"""
from django.conf import settings
def auth(request):
"""
Returns context variables required by apps that use Django's authentication
system.
If there is no 'user' attribute in the request, uses AnonymousUser (from
django.contrib.auth).
"""
if hasattr(request, 'user'):
user = request.user
else:
from django.contrib.auth.models import AnonymousUser
user = AnonymousUser()
return {
'user': user,
'messages': user.get_and_delete_messages(),
'perms': PermWrapper(user),
}
def debug(request):
"Returns context variables helpful for debugging."
context_extras = {}
if settings.DEBUG and request.META.get('REMOTE_ADDR') in settings.INTERNAL_IPS:
context_extras['debug'] = True
from django.db import connection
context_extras['sql_queries'] = connection.queries
return context_extras
def i18n(request):
from django.utils import translation
context_extras = {}
context_extras['LANGUAGES'] = settings.LANGUAGES
context_extras['LANGUAGE_CODE'] = translation.get_language()
context_extras['LANGUAGE_BIDI'] = translation.get_language_bidi()
return context_extras
def media(request):
"""
Adds media-related context variables to the context.
"""
return {'MEDIA_URL': settings.MEDIA_URL}
def request(request):
return {'request': request}
# PermWrapper and PermLookupDict proxy the permissions system into objects that
# the template system can understand.
class PermLookupDict(object):
def __init__(self, user, module_name):
self.user, self.module_name = user, module_name
def __repr__(self):
return str(self.user.get_all_permissions())
def __getitem__(self, perm_name):
return self.user.has_perm("%s.%s" % (self.module_name, perm_name))
def __nonzero__(self):
return self.user.has_module_perms(self.module_name)
class PermWrapper(object):
def __init__(self, user):
self.user = user
def __getitem__(self, module_name):
return PermLookupDict(self.user, module_name)
def __iter__(self):
# I am large, I contain multitudes.
raise TypeError("PermWrapper is not iterable.")