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)