web/views/timeline.py
author Sylvain Thénault <sylvain.thenault@logilab.fr>
Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:19:24 +0200
changeset 5223 6abd6e3599f4
parent 4252 6c4f109c2b03
child 5377 84d14ddfae13
permissions -rw-r--r--
#773448: refactor session and 'no connection' handling, by introducing proper web session. We should now be able to see page even when no anon is configured, and be redirected to the login form as soon as one tries to do a query.

"""basic support for SIMILE's timline widgets

cf. http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/

:organization: Logilab
:copyright: 2008-2010 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"

import simplejson

from logilab.mtconverter import xml_escape

from cubicweb.interfaces import ICalendarable
from cubicweb.selectors import implements
from cubicweb.view import EntityView, StartupView

_ = unicode

class TimelineJsonView(EntityView):
    """generates a json file to feed Timeline.loadJSON()
    NOTE: work in progress (image_url, bubbleUrl and so on
    should be properties of entity classes or subviews)
    """
    __regid__ = 'timeline-json'
    binary = True
    templatable = False
    content_type = 'application/json'

    __select__ = implements(ICalendarable)
    date_fmt = '%Y/%m/%d'

    def call(self):
        events = []
        for entity in self.cw_rset.entities():
            event = self.build_event(entity)
            if event is not None:
                events.append(event)
        timeline_data = {'dateTimeFormat': self.date_fmt,
                         'events': events}
        self.w(simplejson.dumps(timeline_data))

    # FIXME: those properties should be defined by the entity class
    def onclick_url(self, entity):
        return entity.absolute_url()

    def onclick(self, entity):
        url = self.onclick_url(entity)
        if url:
            return u"javascript: document.location.href='%s'" % url
        return None

    def build_event(self, entity):
        """converts `entity` into a JSON object
        {'start': '1891',
        'end': '1915',
        'title': 'Portrait of Horace Brodsky',
        'description': 'by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French Sculptor, 1891-1915',
        'image': 'http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/BRGPOD/102770_b.jpg',
        'link': 'http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Portrait-of-Horace-Brodsky-Posters_i1584413_.htm'
        }
        """
        start = entity.start
        stop = entity.stop
        start = start or stop
        if start is None and stop is None:
            return None
        event_data = {'start': start.strftime(self.date_fmt),
                      'title': xml_escape(entity.dc_title()),
                      'description': entity.dc_description(format='text/html'),
                      'link': entity.absolute_url(),
                      }
        onclick = self.onclick(entity)
        if onclick:
            event_data['onclick'] = onclick
        if stop:
            event_data['end'] = stop.strftime(self.date_fmt)
        return event_data


class TimelineViewMixIn(object):
    widget_class = 'TimelineWidget'
    jsfiles = ('cubicweb.timeline-bundle.js', 'cubicweb.widgets.js',
               'cubicweb.timeline-ext.js', 'cubicweb.ajax.js')

    def render_url(self, loadurl, tlunit=None):
        tlunit = tlunit or self._cw.form.get('tlunit')
        self._cw.add_js(self.jsfiles)
        self._cw.add_css('timeline-bundle.css')
        if tlunit:
            additional = u' cubicweb:tlunit="%s"' % tlunit
        else:
            additional = u''
        self.w(u'<div class="widget" cubicweb:wdgtype="%s" '
               u'cubicweb:loadtype="auto" cubicweb:loadurl="%s" %s >' %
               (self.widget_class, xml_escape(loadurl),
                additional))
        self.w(u'</div>')


class TimelineView(TimelineViewMixIn, EntityView):
    """builds a cubicweb timeline widget node"""
    __regid__ = 'timeline'
    title = _('timeline')
    __select__ = implements(ICalendarable)
    paginable = False
    def call(self, tlunit=None):
        self._cw.html_headers.define_var('Timeline_urlPrefix', self._cw.datadir_url)
        rql = self.cw_rset.printable_rql()
        loadurl = self._cw.build_url(rql=rql, vid='timeline-json')
        self.render_url(loadurl, tlunit)


class StaticTimelineView(TimelineViewMixIn, StartupView):
    """similar to `TimelineView` but loads data from a static
    JSON file instead of one after a RQL query.
    """
    __regid__ = 'static-timeline'

    def call(self, loadurl, tlunit=None, wdgclass=None):
        self.widget_class = wdgclass or self.widget_class
        self.render_url(loadurl, tlunit)