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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"""Module contains sidebar related functions.
"""
__authors__ = [
'"Sverre Rabbelier" <sverre@rabbelier.nl>',
]
from soc.views import out_of_band
from soc.views.helper import access
import soc.cache.sidebar
SIDEBAR = []
SIDEBAR_ACCESS_ARGS = ['SIDEBAR_CALLING']
SIDEBAR_ACCESS_KWARGS = {'SIDEBAR_CALLING': True}
def addMenu(callback):
"""Adds a callback to the menu builder.
The callback should return a list of menu's when called.
"""
global SIDEBAR
SIDEBAR.append(callback)
@soc.cache.sidebar.cache
def getSidebar():
"""Constructs a sidebar for the current user.
"""
sidebar = []
for callback in SIDEBAR:
menus = callback()
for menu in (menus if menus else []):
sidebar.append(menu)
return sidebar
def getSidebarItems(params):
"""Retrieves a list of sidebar entries for this view.
Params usage:
The params dictionary is provided to the menu_text's format.
sidebar: The sidebar value is returned directly if non-False
sidebar_defaults: The sidebar_defaults are used to construct the
sidebar items for this View. It is expected to be a tuple of
three items, the item's url, it's menu_text, and it's
access_type, see getSidebarMenus on how access_type is used.
sidebar_additional: The sidebar_additional values are appended
to the list of items verbatim, and should be in the format
expected by getSidebarMenus.
Args:
params: a dict with params for this View.
"""
# Return the found result
if params['sidebar']:
default = params['sidebar']
result = default[:]
for item in params['sidebar_additional']:
result.append(item)
return result
# Construct defaults manualy
defaults = params['sidebar_defaults']
result = []
for item in params['sidebar_additional']:
result.append(item)
for url, menu_text, access_type in defaults:
url = url % params['url_name'].lower()
item = (url, menu_text % params, access_type)
result.append(item)
return result
def getSidebarMenu(items, params):
"""Returns an dictionary with one sidebar entry.
Items is expected to be a tuple with an url, a menu_text, and an
access_type. The access_type is then passed to checkAccess, if it
raises out_of_band.Error, the item will not be added.
Args:
items: see above
params: a dict with params for this View
Params usage:
The params dictionary is passed as argument to getSidebarItems,
see the docstring of getSidebarItems on how it uses it.
rights: The rights dictionary is used to check if the user has
the required rights to see a sidebar item.
See checkAccess for more details on how the rights dictionary
is used to check access rights.
sidebar_heading: The sidebar_heading value is used to set the
heading variable in the result.
name: The name value is used if sidebar_heading is not present.
Returns:
A dictionary is returned with it's 'heading' value set as explained above.
It's 'items' value is constructed by calling _getSidebarItems. It constists
of dictionaries with a url and a title field.
"""
rights = params['rights']
submenus = []
args = SIDEBAR_ACCESS_ARGS
kwargs = SIDEBAR_ACCESS_KWARGS
for url, menu_text, access_type in items:
try:
access.checkAccess(access_type, rights, kwargs)
submenus.append({'url': url, 'title': menu_text})
except out_of_band.Error:
pass
return submenus
def getSidebarMenus(params=None):
"""Constructs the default sidebar menu for a View.
Calls getSidebarItems to retrieve the items that should be in the
menu. Then passes the result to getSidebarMenu. See the respective
docstrings for an explanation on what they do.
Args:
params: a dict with params for this View
"""
items = getSidebarItems(params)
submenus = getSidebarMenu(items, params)
if not submenus:
return
menu = {}
if 'sidebar_heading' not in params:
params['sidebar_heading'] = params['name']
menu['heading'] = params['sidebar_heading']
menu['items'] = submenus
menus = [menu]
return menus