diff -r 01e90bb21b7e -r 00cea07656c0 app/soc/views/helper/responses.py
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+++ b/app/soc/views/helper/responses.py	Fri Oct 03 23:17:49 2008 +0000
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+#!/usr/bin/python2.5
+#
+# Copyright 2008 the Melange authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""Helpers used to render response.
+"""
+
+__authors__ = [
+  '"Todd Larsen" <tlarsen@google.com>',
+  '"Pawel Solyga" <pawel.solyga@gmail.com>',
+  ]
+
+
+import logging
+
+from google.appengine.api import users
+
+from django import http
+from django.template import loader
+
+# DeadlineExceededError can live in two different places
+try:
+  # When deployed
+  from google.appengine.runtime import DeadlineExceededError
+except ImportError:
+  # In the development server
+  from google.appengine.runtime.apiproxy_errors import DeadlineExceededError
+
+from soc.logic import system
+from soc.logic.site import id_user
+from soc.logic.site import sidebar
+from soc.views import helper
+import soc.views.helper.requests
+from soc.views.helpers import html_menu
+
+
+def respond(request, template, context=None, response_args=None):
+  """Helper to render a response, passing standard stuff to the response.
+
+  Args:
+    request: the Django HTTP request object
+    template: the template (or search list of templates) to render
+    context: the context supplied to the template (implements dict)
+    response_args: keyword arguments passed to http.HttpResponse()
+      (response_args['content'] is created with
+      render_to_string(template, dictionary=context) if it is not present)
+
+  Returns:
+    django.shortcuts.render_to_response(template, context) results
+
+  Raises:
+    Any exceptions that django.template.loader.render_to_string() or
+    django.http.HttpResponse() might raise.
+  """
+  context = getUniversalContext(request, context=context)
+
+  if response_args is None:
+    response_args = {}
+
+  try:
+    response_args['content'] = response_args.get(
+        'content', loader.render_to_string(template, dictionary=context))
+    return http.HttpResponse(**response_args)
+  except DeadlineExceededError:
+    logging.exception('DeadlineExceededError')
+    return http.HttpResponse('DeadlineExceededError')
+  except MemoryError:
+    logging.exception('MemoryError')
+    return http.HttpResponse('MemoryError')
+  except AssertionError:
+    logging.exception('AssertionError')
+    return http.HttpResponse('AssertionError')
+
+
+def getUniversalContext(request, context=None):
+  """Constructs a template context dict will many common variables defined.
+  
+  Args:
+    request: the Django HTTP request object
+    context: the template context dict to be updated in-place (pass in a copy
+      if the original must not be modified), or None if a new one is to be
+      created; any existing fields already present in the context dict passed
+      in by the caller are left unaltered 
+      
+  Returns:
+    updated template context dict supplied by the caller, or a new context
+    dict if the caller supplied None
+    
+    {
+      'request': the Django HTTP request object passed in by the caller
+      'id': the logged-in Google Account if there is one
+      'user': the User entity corresponding to the Google Account in
+        context['id']
+      'is_admin': True if users.is_current_user_admin() is True
+      'is_debug': True if system.isDebug() is True
+      'sign_in': a Google Account login URL
+      'sign_out': a Google Account logout URL
+      'sidebar_menu_html': an HTML string that renders the sidebar menu
+    }
+  """
+  if context is None:
+    context = {}
+
+  # set some universal values if caller did not already set them  
+  context['request'] = context.get('request', request)
+  context['id'] = id_user.getIdIfMissing(context.get('id', None))
+  context['user'] = id_user.getUserIfMissing(context.get('user', None),
+                                             context['id'])
+  context['is_admin'] = context.get(
+      'is_admin', id_user.isIdDeveloper(id=context['id']))
+  context['is_debug'] = context.get('is_debug', system.isDebug())
+  context['sign_in'] = context.get(
+      'sign_in', users.create_login_url(request.path))
+  context['sign_out'] = context.get(
+      'sign_out', users.create_logout_url(request.path))
+
+  if not context.get('sidebar_menu_html'):
+    # pass the currently constructed context as keyword arguments to
+    # all of the sidebar builder functions
+    context['sidebar_menu_html'] = str(html_menu.UlMenu(
+      sidebar.buildSidebar(**context)))
+
+  return context
+
+
+def redirectToChangedSuffix(
+    request, old_suffix, new_suffix=None, params=None):
+  """Changes suffix of URL path and returns an HTTP redirect response.
+  
+  Args:
+    request: the Django HTTP request object; redirect path is derived from
+      request.path
+    old_suffix, new_suffix, params:  see helper.requests.replaceSuffix()
+      
+  Returns:
+    a Django HTTP redirect response pointing to the altered path
+  """
+  path = helper.requests.replaceSuffix(request.path, old_suffix, new_suffix,
+                                       params=params)
+  return http.HttpResponseRedirect(path)