app/soc/views/helper/responses.py
author Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:02:31 +0000
changeset 493 6976c4d8d0ac
parent 481 94834a1e6c01
child 499 d22e4fe8e64b
permissions -rw-r--r--
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.

#!/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>',
  ]


from google.appengine.api import users

from django import http
from django.template import loader

from soc.logic import accounts
from soc.logic import system
from soc.logic.models import site_settings
from soc.views import helper
from soc.views.sitemap import sidebar

import soc.logic
import soc.logic.models.user
import soc.views.helper.requests


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.
  """

  if not context:
    context = getUniversalContext(request)

  if response_args is None:
    response_args = {}

  response_args['content'] = response_args.get(
      'content', loader.render_to_string(template, dictionary=context))
  return http.HttpResponse(**response_args)


def getUniversalContext(request):
  """Constructs a template context dict will many common variables defined.
  
  Args:
    request: the Django HTTP request object

  Returns:
    a new context dict containing:
    
    {
      'request': the Django HTTP request object passed in by the caller
      'account': the logged-in Google Account if there is one
      'user': the User entity corresponding to the Google Account in
        context['account']
      '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
      'sidebar_menu_html': an HTML string that renders the sidebar menu
    }
  """

  account = users.get_current_user()

  context = {}
  context['request'] = request

  if account:
    context['account'] = account
    context['user'] = soc.logic.models.user.logic.getForFields(
        {'account': account}, unique=True)
    context['is_admin'] = accounts.isDeveloper(account=account)

  context['is_debug'] = system.isDebug()
  context['sign_in'] = users.create_login_url(request.path)
  context['sign_out'] = users.create_logout_url(request.path)
  context['sidebar_menu_items'] = sidebar.SIDEBAR

  settings = site_settings.logic.getFromFields(
      partial_path=site_settings.logic.DEF_SITE_SETTINGS_PARTIAL_PATH,
      link_name=site_settings.logic.DEF_SITE_SETTINGS_LINK_NAME)
  
  if settings:
    context['ga_tracking_num'] = settings.ga_tracking_num
  
  return context


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 helper.requests.replaceSuffix()
      
  Returns:
    a Django HTTP redirect response pointing to the altered path
  """
  path = helper.requests.replaceSuffix(request.path, old_suffix, new_suffix,
                                       params=params)
  return http.HttpResponseRedirect(path)