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.
from django.utils.html import conditional_escape
from django.utils.encoding import smart_unicode, StrAndUnicode, force_unicode
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
def flatatt(attrs):
"""
Convert a dictionary of attributes to a single string.
The returned string will contain a leading space followed by key="value",
XML-style pairs. It is assumed that the keys do not need to be XML-escaped.
If the passed dictionary is empty, then return an empty string.
"""
return u''.join([u' %s="%s"' % (k, conditional_escape(v)) for k, v in attrs.items()])
class ErrorDict(dict, StrAndUnicode):
"""
A collection of errors that knows how to display itself in various formats.
The dictionary keys are the field names, and the values are the errors.
"""
def __unicode__(self):
return self.as_ul()
def as_ul(self):
if not self: return u''
return mark_safe(u'<ul class="errorlist">%s</ul>'
% ''.join([u'<li>%s%s</li>' % (k, force_unicode(v))
for k, v in self.items()]))
def as_text(self):
return u'\n'.join([u'* %s\n%s' % (k, u'\n'.join([u' * %s' % force_unicode(i) for i in v])) for k, v in self.items()])
class ErrorList(list, StrAndUnicode):
"""
A collection of errors that knows how to display itself in various formats.
"""
def __unicode__(self):
return self.as_ul()
def as_ul(self):
if not self: return u''
return mark_safe(u'<ul class="errorlist">%s</ul>'
% ''.join([u'<li>%s</li>' % force_unicode(e) for e in self]))
def as_text(self):
if not self: return u''
return u'\n'.join([u'* %s' % force_unicode(e) for e in self])
def __repr__(self):
return repr([force_unicode(e) for e in self])
class ValidationError(Exception):
def __init__(self, message):
"""
ValidationError can be passed any object that can be printed (usually
a string) or a list of objects.
"""
if isinstance(message, list):
self.messages = ErrorList([smart_unicode(msg) for msg in message])
else:
message = smart_unicode(message)
self.messages = ErrorList([message])
def __str__(self):
# This is needed because, without a __str__(), printing an exception
# instance would result in this:
# AttributeError: ValidationError instance has no attribute 'args'
# See http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node10.html#handling
return repr(self.messages)