Make the sidebar dynamic depending on the user's rights
This is done by doing the usual access checks that are also called
when the user actually visits the page.
import os, sys
from ctypes import c_char_p, CDLL
from ctypes.util import find_library
from django.contrib.gis.gdal.error import OGRException
# Custom library path set?
try:
from django.conf import settings
lib_path = settings.GDAL_LIBRARY_PATH
except (AttributeError, EnvironmentError, ImportError):
lib_path = None
if lib_path:
lib_names = None
elif os.name == 'nt':
# Windows NT shared library
lib_names = ['gdal15']
elif os.name == 'posix':
# *NIX library names.
lib_names = ['gdal', 'gdal1.5.0']
else:
raise OGRException('Unsupported OS "%s"' % os.name)
# Using the ctypes `find_library` utility to find the
# path to the GDAL library from the list of library names.
if lib_names:
for lib_name in lib_names:
lib_path = find_library(lib_name)
if not lib_path is None: break
if lib_path is None:
raise OGRException('Could not find the GDAL library (tried "%s"). '
'Try setting GDAL_LIBRARY_PATH in your settings.' %
'", "'.join(lib_names))
# This loads the GDAL/OGR C library
lgdal = CDLL(lib_path)
# On Windows, the GDAL binaries have some OSR routines exported with
# STDCALL, while others are not. Thus, the library will also need to
# be loaded up as WinDLL for said OSR functions that require the
# different calling convention.
if os.name == 'nt':
from ctypes import WinDLL
lwingdal = WinDLL(lib_path)
def std_call(func):
"""
Returns the correct STDCALL function for certain OSR routines on Win32
platforms.
"""
if os.name == 'nt':
return lwingdal[func]
else:
return lgdal[func]
#### Version-information functions. ####
# Returns GDAL library version information with the given key.
_version_info = std_call('GDALVersionInfo')
_version_info.argtypes = [c_char_p]
_version_info.restype = c_char_p
def gdal_version():
"Returns only the GDAL version number information."
return _version_info('RELEASE_NAME')
def gdal_full_version():
"Returns the full GDAL version information."
return _version_info('')
def gdal_release_date(date=False):
"""
Returns the release date in a string format, e.g, "2007/06/27".
If the date keyword argument is set to True, a Python datetime object
will be returned instead.
"""
from datetime import date as date_type
rel = _version_info('RELEASE_DATE')
yy, mm, dd = map(int, (rel[0:4], rel[4:6], rel[6:8]))
d = date_type(yy, mm, dd)
if date: return d
else: return d.strftime('%Y/%m/%d')