app/django/contrib/gis/shortcuts.py
author Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:42:44 +0000
changeset 2246 c29272f640b0
parent 323 ff1a9aa48cfd
permissions -rw-r--r--
Tweak the 'load balancing' algorithm In order to reduce contention we randomly skipped jobs, but this caused many jobs to end up stopping early. Now instead we keep on going until we time out (also increased the chance of doing work). Patch by: Sverre Rabbelier

import cStringIO, zipfile
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.template import loader

def compress_kml(kml):
    "Returns compressed KMZ from the given KML string."
    kmz = cStringIO.StringIO()
    zf = zipfile.ZipFile(kmz, 'a', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED, False)
    zf.writestr('doc.kml', kml)
    zf.close()
    kmz.seek(0)
    return kmz.read()

def render_to_kml(*args, **kwargs):
    "Renders the response as KML (using the correct MIME type)."
    return HttpResponse(loader.render_to_string(*args, **kwargs),
                        mimetype='application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml kml')

def render_to_kmz(*args, **kwargs):
    """
    Compresses the KML content and returns as KMZ (using the correct 
    MIME type).
    """
    return HttpResponse(compress_kml(loader.render_to_string(*args, **kwargs)),
                        mimetype='application/vnd.google-earth.kmz')


def render_to_text(*args, **kwargs):
    "Renders the response using the MIME type for plain text."
    return HttpResponse(loader.render_to_string(*args, **kwargs),
                        mimetype='text/plain')