app/soc/views/sitemap/sidebar.py
author Lennard de Rijk <ljvderijk@gmail.com>
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:00:53 +0200
changeset 2497 996f381d458c
parent 2333 221482a54238
permissions -rw-r--r--
Added _getSurveyRecordFor method to Survey View. This method is used by the Take view to get the right SurveyRecord for the current request. Subclassed Views that want to fetch their records in another way can override this method.

#!/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


SIDEBAR_ACCESS_ARGS = ['SIDEBAR_CALLING']
SIDEBAR_ACCESS_KWARGS = {'SIDEBAR_CALLING': True}



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(id, user, 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

  # reset and pre-fill the Checker's cache
  rights.setCurrentUser(id, user)

  for url, menu_text, access_type in items:
    try:
      rights.checkAccess(access_type, kwargs)
      submenus.append({'url': url, 'title': menu_text})
    except out_of_band.Error:
      pass

  return submenus


def getSidebarMenus(id, user, 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(id, user, 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
  menu['group'] = params['sidebar_grouping']

  menus = [menu]

  return menus