wsgi/__init__.py
author Stephanie Marcu <stephanie.marcu@logilab.fr>
Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:55:44 +0100
changeset 1162 f210dce0dc47
parent 0 b97547f5f1fa
child 1802 d628defebc17
permissions -rw-r--r--
fix for booelan attribute which have empty string as false value and didn't work if default value for this attribute was True.

"""This package contains all WSGI specific code for cubicweb

NOTE: this package borrows a lot of code to Django
      (http://www.djangoproject.com) and to the wsgiref module
      of the python2.5's stdlib.

WSGI corresponding PEP: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/

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

from email import message, message_from_string
from Cookie import SimpleCookie
from StringIO import StringIO
from cgi import parse_header, parse_qsl
from pprint import pformat as _pformat


def pformat(obj):
    """pretty prints `obj` if possible"""
    try:
        return _pformat(obj)
    except:
        return u'<could not parse>'
    
def qs2dict(qs):
    """transforms a query string into a regular python dict"""
    result = {}
    for key, value in parse_qsl(qs, True):
        result.setdefault(key, []).append(value)
    return result

def normalize_header(header):
    """returns a normalized header name
    
    >>> normalize_header('User_Agent')
    'User-agent'
    """
    return header.replace('_', '-').capitalize()

def safe_copyfileobj(fsrc, fdst, length=16*1024, size=0):
    """
    THIS COMES FROM DJANGO
    A version of shutil.copyfileobj that will not read more than 'size' bytes.
    This makes it safe from clients sending more than CONTENT_LENGTH bytes of
    data in the body.
    """
    if not size:
        return
    while size > 0:
        buf = fsrc.read(min(length, size))
        if not buf:
            break
        fdst.write(buf)
        size -= len(buf)

def parse_file_upload(header_dict, post_data):
    """This is adapted FROM DJANGO"""
    raw_message = '\r\n'.join('%s:%s' % pair for pair in header_dict.iteritems())
    raw_message += '\r\n\r\n' + post_data
    msg = message_from_string(raw_message)
    post, files = {}, {}
    for submessage in msg.get_payload():
        name_dict = parse_header(submessage['Content-Disposition'])[1]
        key = name_dict['name']
        # name_dict is something like {'name': 'file', 'filename': 'test.txt'} for file uploads
        # or {'name': 'blah'} for POST fields
        # We assume all uploaded files have a 'filename' set.
        if 'filename' in name_dict:
            assert type([]) != type(submessage.get_payload()), "Nested MIME messages are not supported"
            if not name_dict['filename'].strip():
                continue
            # IE submits the full path, so trim everything but the basename.
            # (We can't use os.path.basename because that uses the server's
            # directory separator, which may not be the same as the
            # client's one.)
            filename = name_dict['filename'][name_dict['filename'].rfind("\\")+1:]
            mimetype = 'Content-Type' in submessage and submessage['Content-Type'] or None
            content = StringIO(submessage.get_payload())
            files[key] = [filename, mimetype, content]
        else:
            post.setdefault(key, []).append(submessage.get_payload())
    return post, files