web/views/timeline.py
author Adrien Di Mascio <Adrien.DiMascio@logilab.fr>
Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:52:50 +0100
changeset 0 b97547f5f1fa
child 431 18b4dd650ef8
permissions -rw-r--r--
Showtime !

"""basic support for SIMILE's timline widgets

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

:organization: Logilab
:copyright: 2008 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE), all rights reserved.
:contact: http://www.logilab.fr/ -- mailto:contact@logilab.fr
"""
__docformat__ = "restructuredtext en"

import simplejson

from logilab.mtconverter import html_escape

from cubicweb.interfaces import ICalendarable
from cubicweb.common.view import EntityView, StartupView
from cubicweb.common.selectors import interface_selector


# 
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)
    """
    id = 'timeline-json'
    binary = True
    templatable = False
    content_type = 'application/json'

    __selectors__ = (interface_selector,)
    accepts_interfaces = (ICalendarable,)
    date_fmt = '%Y/%m/%d'
    
    def call(self):
        events = []
        for entity in self.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': html_escape(entity.dc_title()),
                      'description': entity.dc_description(),
                      '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(self, loadurl, tlunit=None):
        tlunit = tlunit or self.req.form.get('tlunit')
        self.req.add_js(self.jsfiles)
        self.req.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, html_escape(loadurl),
                additional))
        self.w(u'</div>')


class TimelineView(TimelineViewMixIn, EntityView):
    """builds a cubicweb timeline widget node"""
    id = 'timeline'
    __selectors__ = (interface_selector,)
    accepts_interfaces = (ICalendarable,)
    need_navigation = False
    def call(self, tlunit=None):
        self.req.html_headers.define_var('Timeline_urlPrefix', self.req.datadir_url)
        rql = self.rset.printable_rql()
        loadurl = self.build_url(rql=rql, vid='timeline-json')
        self.render(loadurl, tlunit)
        
    
class StaticTimelineView(TimelineViewMixIn, StartupView):
    """similar to `TimelineView` but loads data from a static
    JSON file instead of one after a RQL query.
    """
    id = 'static-timeline'
    
    def call(self, loadurl, tlunit=None, wdgclass=None):
        self.widget_class = wdgclass or self.widget_clas
        self.render(loadurl, tlunit)