Do not rely on dicts.merge to change target
Also make dicts.merge actually not touch target. This is much cleaner
than modifying in place, especially since we assign the result of the
dicts.merge call to target most of the time anyway.
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')