app/soc/views/helper/templates.py
author Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:28:07 +0000
changeset 987 6fd5c561b446
parent 270 7dd6d8347b56
child 1307 091a21cf3627
permissions -rw-r--r--
Cache sidebar with a simple caching API We cache the sidebar once for every user, the downside is that once the user meets new access criteria, their sidebar does not get updated. This can be fixed by calling soc.cache.sidebar.flush() when appropriate. Patch by: Sverre Rabbelier

#!/usr/bin/python2.5
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"""Helpers for manipulating templates.
"""

__authors__ = [
  '"Todd Larsen" <tlarsen@google.com>',
  '"Pawel Solyga" <pawel.solyga@gmail.com>'
  ]


def makeSiblingTemplatesList(templates, new_template_file,
                             default_template=None):
  """Converts template paths into a list of "sibling" templates.
  
  Args:
    templates: search list of templates (or just a single template not in a
      list) from which template paths will be extracted (discarding the final
      template file name of each template)
    new_template_file: new "sibling" template file to append to each extracted
      template path
    default_template: a default template (or a list of them) to append to the
      end of the generated "sibling" template paths; default is None
 
  Returns:
    A list of potential "sibling" templates named by new_template_file located
    in the paths of the templates in the supplied list.  For example, from:
      ['foo/bar/the_old_template.html', 'foo/the_old_template.html']
    to:
      ['foo/bar/some_new_template.html', 'foo/some_new_template.html']
  """
  if not isinstance(templates, (list, tuple)):
    templates = [templates]

  if default_template is None:
    default_template = []

  if not isinstance(default_template, (list, tuple)):
    default_template = [default_template]

  sibling_templates = [
    '%s/%s' % (t.rsplit('/', 1)[0], new_template_file) for t in templates]

  return sibling_templates + default_template


def unescape(html): 
  """Returns the given HTML with ampersands, quotes and carets decoded.
  """ 
  if not isinstance(html, basestring): 
    html = str(html) 
  
  html.replace('&#39;',"'").replace('&lt;', '<')
  html.replace('&gt;', '>').replace('&quot;', '"').replace('&amp;', '&')
  return html