entities/__init__.py
author Sylvain Thénault <sylvain.thenault@logilab.fr>
Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:39:56 +0100
branchstable
changeset 3975 569771016abb
parent 3689 deb13e88e037
child 3720 5376aaadd16b
child 4212 ab6573088b4a
permissions -rw-r--r--
add a fourth item to 'view box' defintion, dispctrl, so that we can later globally sort all boxes instead of having view boxes before component boxes. 'view' boxes order is configured through uicfg.primaryview_display_ctrl, 'component' boxes order through the cwproperty system.

"""base application's entities class implementation: `AnyEntity`

:organization: Logilab
:copyright: 2001-2009 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE), license is LGPL v2.
:contact: http://www.logilab.fr/ -- mailto:contact@logilab.fr
:license: GNU Lesser General Public License, v2.1 - http://www.gnu.org/licenses
"""
__docformat__ = "restructuredtext en"

from warnings import warn

from logilab.common.deprecation import deprecated
from logilab.common.decorators import cached

from cubicweb import Unauthorized, typed_eid
from cubicweb.entity import Entity

from cubicweb.interfaces import IBreadCrumbs, IFeed


class AnyEntity(Entity):
    """an entity instance has e_schema automagically set on the class and
    instances have access to their issuing cursor
    """
    id = 'Any'
    __implements__ = (IBreadCrumbs, IFeed)

    fetch_attrs = ('modification_date',)
    @classmethod
    def fetch_order(cls, attr, var):
        """class method used to control sort order when multiple entities of
        this type are fetched
        """
        return cls.fetch_unrelated_order(attr, var)

    @classmethod
    def fetch_unrelated_order(cls, attr, var):
        """class method used to control sort order when multiple entities of
        this type are fetched to use in edition (eg propose them to create a
        new relation on an edited entity).
        """
        if attr == 'modification_date':
            return '%s DESC' % var
        return None

    # meta data api ###########################################################

    def dc_title(self):
        """return a suitable *unicode* title for this entity"""
        for rschema, attrschema in self.e_schema.attribute_definitions():
            if rschema.meta:
                continue
            value = self.get_value(rschema.type)
            if value:
                # make the value printable (dates, floats, bytes, etc.)
                return self.printable_value(rschema.type, value, attrschema.type,
                                            format='text/plain')
        return u'%s #%s' % (self.dc_type(), self.eid)

    def dc_long_title(self):
        """return a more detailled title for this entity"""
        return self.dc_title()

    def dc_description(self, format='text/plain'):
        """return a suitable description for this entity"""
        if 'description' in self.e_schema.subjrels:
            return self.printable_value('description', format=format)
        return u''

    def dc_authors(self):
        """return a suitable description for the author(s) of the entity"""
        try:
            return ', '.join(u.name() for u in self.owned_by)
        except Unauthorized:
            return u''

    def dc_creator(self):
        """return a suitable description for the creator of the entity"""
        if self.creator:
            return self.creator.name()
        return u''

    def dc_date(self, date_format=None):# XXX default to ISO 8601 ?
        """return latest modification date of this entity"""
        return self.format_date(self.modification_date, date_format=date_format)

    def dc_type(self, form=''):
        """return the display name for the type of this entity (translated)"""
        return self.e_schema.display_name(self.req, form)

    def dc_language(self):
        """return language used by this entity (translated)"""
        # check if entities has internationalizable attributes
        # XXX one is enough or check if all String attributes are internationalizable?
        for rschema, attrschema in self.e_schema.attribute_definitions():
            if rschema.rproperty(self.e_schema, attrschema,
                                 'internationalizable'):
                return self.req._(self.req.user.property_value('ui.language'))
        return self.req._(self.vreg.property_value('ui.language'))

    @property
    def creator(self):
        """return the CWUser entity which has created this entity, or None if
        unknown or if the curent user doesn't has access to this euser
        """
        try:
            return self.created_by[0]
        except (Unauthorized, IndexError):
            return None

    def breadcrumbs(self, view=None, recurs=False):
        path = [self]
        if hasattr(self, 'parent'):
            parent = self.parent()
            if parent is not None:
                try:
                    path = parent.breadcrumbs(view, True) + [self]
                except TypeError:
                    warn("breadcrumbs method's now takes two arguments "
                         "(view=None, recurs=False), please update",
                         DeprecationWarning)
                    path = parent.breadcrumbs(view) + [self]
        if not recurs:
            if view is None:
                if 'vtitle' in self.req.form:
                    # embeding for instance
                    path.append( self.req.form['vtitle'] )
            elif view.id != 'primary' and hasattr(view, 'title'):
                path.append( self.req._(view.title) )
        return path

    ## IFeed interface ########################################################

    def rss_feed_url(self):
        return self.absolute_url(vid='rss')

    # abstractions making the whole things (well, some at least) working ######

    def sortvalue(self, rtype=None):
        """return a value which can be used to sort this entity or given
        entity's attribute
        """
        if rtype is None:
            return self.dc_title().lower()
        value = self.get_value(rtype)
        # do not restrict to `unicode` because Bytes will return a `str` value
        if isinstance(value, basestring):
            return self.printable_value(rtype, format='text/plain').lower()
        return value

    # edition helper functions ################################################

    def linked_to(self, rtype, role, remove=True):
        """if entity should be linked to another using __linkto form param for
        the given relation/role, return eids of related entities

        This method is consuming matching link-to information from form params
        if `remove` is True (by default).
        """
        try:
            return self.__linkto[(rtype, role)]
        except AttributeError:
            self.__linkto = {}
        except KeyError:
            pass
        linktos = list(self.req.list_form_param('__linkto'))
        linkedto = []
        for linkto in linktos[:]:
            ltrtype, eid, ltrole = linkto.split(':')
            if rtype == ltrtype and role == ltrole:
                # delete __linkto from form param to avoid it being added as
                # hidden input
                if remove:
                    linktos.remove(linkto)
                    self.req.form['__linkto'] = linktos
                linkedto.append(typed_eid(eid))
        self.__linkto[(rtype, role)] = linkedto
        return linkedto

    # edit controller callbacks ###############################################

    def after_deletion_path(self):
        """return (path, parameters) which should be used as redirect
        information when this entity is being deleted
        """
        if hasattr(self, 'parent') and self.parent():
            return self.parent().rest_path(), {}
        return str(self.e_schema).lower(), {}

    def pre_web_edit(self):
        """callback called by the web editcontroller when an entity will be
        created/modified, to let a chance to do some entity specific stuff.

        Do nothing by default.
        """
        pass

    # server side helpers #####################################################

    def notification_references(self, view):
        """used to control References field of email send on notification
        for this entity. `view` is the notification view.

        Should return a list of eids which can be used to generate message ids
        of previously sent email
        """
        return ()

    # XXX deprecates, may be killed once old widgets system is gone ###########

    @classmethod
    def get_widget(cls, rschema, x='subject'):
        """return a widget to view or edit a relation

        notice that when the relation support multiple target types, the widget
        is necessarily the same for all those types
        """
        # let ImportError propage if web par isn't available
        from cubicweb.web.widgets import widget
        if isinstance(rschema, basestring):
            rschema = cls.schema.rschema(rschema)
        if x == 'subject':
            tschema = rschema.objects(cls.e_schema)[0]
            wdg = widget(cls.vreg, cls, rschema, tschema, 'subject')
        else:
            tschema = rschema.subjects(cls.e_schema)[0]
            wdg = widget(cls.vreg, tschema, rschema, cls, 'object')
        return wdg

    @deprecated('use EntityFieldsForm.subject_relation_vocabulary')
    def subject_relation_vocabulary(self, rtype, limit):
        form = self.vreg.select('forms', 'edition', self.req, entity=self)
        return form.subject_relation_vocabulary(rtype, limit)

    @deprecated('use EntityFieldsForm.object_relation_vocabulary')
    def object_relation_vocabulary(self, rtype, limit):
        form = self.vreg.select('forms', 'edition', self.req, entity=self)
        return form.object_relation_vocabulary(rtype, limit)

    @deprecated('use AutomaticEntityForm.[e]relations_by_category')
    def relations_by_category(self, categories=None, permission=None):
        from cubicweb.web.views.autoform import AutomaticEntityForm
        return AutomaticEntityForm.erelations_by_category(self, categories, permission)

    @deprecated('use AutomaticEntityForm.[e]srelations_by_category')
    def srelations_by_category(self, categories=None, permission=None):
        from cubicweb.web.views.autoform import AutomaticEntityForm
        return AutomaticEntityForm.esrelations_by_category(self, categories, permission)

    def attribute_values(self, attrname):
        if self.has_eid() or attrname in self:
            try:
                values = self[attrname]
            except KeyError:
                values = getattr(self, attrname)
            # actual relation return a list of entities
            if isinstance(values, list):
                return [v.eid for v in values]
            return (values,)
        # the entity is being created, try to find default value for
        # this attribute
        try:
            values = self.req.form[attrname]
        except KeyError:
            try:
                values = self[attrname] # copying
            except KeyError:
                values = getattr(self, 'default_%s' % attrname,
                                 self.e_schema.default(attrname))
                if callable(values):
                    values = values()
        if values is None:
            values = ()
        elif not isinstance(values, (list, tuple)):
            values = (values,)
        return values

    def use_fckeditor(self, attr):
        """return True if fckeditor should be used to edit entity's attribute named
        `attr`, according to user preferences
        """
        if self.req.use_fckeditor() and self.e_schema.has_metadata(attr, 'format'):
            if self.has_eid() or '%s_format' % attr in self:
                return self.attr_metadata(attr, 'format') == 'text/html'
            return self.req.property_value('ui.default-text-format') == 'text/html'
        return False

# XXX:  store a reference to the AnyEntity class since it is hijacked in goa
#       configuration and we need the actual reference to avoid infinite loops
#       in mro
ANYENTITY = AnyEntity

def fetch_config(fetchattrs, mainattr=None, pclass=AnyEntity, order='ASC'):
    if pclass is ANYENTITY:
        pclass = AnyEntity # AnyEntity and ANYENTITY may be different classes
    if pclass is not None:
        fetchattrs += pclass.fetch_attrs
    if mainattr is None:
        mainattr = fetchattrs[0]
    @classmethod
    def fetch_order(cls, attr, var):
        if attr == mainattr:
            return '%s %s' % (var, order)
        return None
    return fetchattrs, fetch_order