diff -r 058bb3dc685f -r 0b59724cb3f2 cubicweb/mttransforms.py
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+# copyright 2003-2010 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE), all rights reserved.
+# contact http://www.logilab.fr/ -- mailto:contact@logilab.fr
+#
+# This file is part of CubicWeb.
+#
+# CubicWeb is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
+# terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
+# Software Foundation, either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option)
+# any later version.
+#
+# CubicWeb is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+# ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
+# FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more
+# details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along
+# with CubicWeb.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+"""mime type transformation engine for cubicweb, based on mtconverter"""
+
+__docformat__ = "restructuredtext en"
+
+from logilab import mtconverter
+
+from logilab.mtconverter.engine import TransformEngine
+from logilab.mtconverter.transform import Transform
+from logilab.mtconverter import (register_base_transforms,
+                                 register_pil_transforms,
+                                 register_pygments_transforms)
+
+from cubicweb.utils import UStringIO
+from cubicweb.uilib import rest_publish, markdown_publish, html_publish
+
+HTML_MIMETYPES = ('text/html', 'text/xhtml', 'application/xhtml+xml')
+
+# CubicWeb specific transformations
+
+class rest_to_html(Transform):
+    inputs = ('text/rest', 'text/x-rst')
+    output = 'text/html'
+    def _convert(self, trdata):
+        return rest_publish(trdata.appobject, trdata.decode())
+
+class markdown_to_html(Transform):
+    inputs = ('text/markdown', 'text/x-markdown')
+    output = 'text/html'
+    def _convert(self, trdata):
+        return markdown_publish(trdata.appobject, trdata.decode())
+
+class html_to_html(Transform):
+    inputs = HTML_MIMETYPES
+    output = 'text/html'
+    def _convert(self, trdata):
+        return html_publish(trdata.appobject, trdata.data)
+
+
+# Instantiate and configure the transformation engine
+
+mtconverter.UNICODE_POLICY = 'replace'
+
+ENGINE = TransformEngine()
+ENGINE.add_transform(rest_to_html())
+ENGINE.add_transform(markdown_to_html())
+ENGINE.add_transform(html_to_html())
+
+try:
+    from cubicweb.ext.tal import CubicWebContext, compile_template
+except ImportError:
+    HAS_TAL = False
+    from cubicweb import schema
+    schema.NEED_PERM_FORMATS.remove('text/cubicweb-page-template')
+
+else:
+    HAS_TAL = True
+
+    class ept_to_html(Transform):
+        inputs = ('text/cubicweb-page-template',)
+        output = 'text/html'
+        output_encoding = 'utf-8'
+        def _convert(self, trdata):
+            context = CubicWebContext()
+            appobject = trdata.appobject
+            context.update({'self': appobject, 'rset': appobject.cw_rset,
+                            'req': appobject._cw,
+                            '_' : appobject._cw._,
+                            'user': appobject._cw.user})
+            output = UStringIO()
+            template = compile_template(trdata.encode(self.output_encoding))
+            template.expand(context, output)
+            return output.getvalue()
+
+    ENGINE.add_transform(ept_to_html())
+
+if register_pil_transforms(ENGINE, verb=False):
+    HAS_PIL_TRANSFORMS = True
+else:
+    HAS_PIL_TRANSFORMS = False
+
+try:
+    from logilab.mtconverter.transforms import pygmentstransforms
+    for mt in ('text/plain',) + HTML_MIMETYPES:
+        try:
+            pygmentstransforms.mimetypes.remove(mt)
+        except ValueError:
+            continue
+    register_pygments_transforms(ENGINE, verb=False)
+
+    def patch_convert(cls):
+        def _convert(self, trdata, origconvert=cls._convert):
+            add_css = getattr(trdata.appobject._cw, 'add_css', None)
+            if add_css is not None:
+                # session has no add_css, only http request
+                add_css('pygments.css')
+            return origconvert(self, trdata)
+        cls._convert = _convert
+    patch_convert(pygmentstransforms.PygmentsHTMLTransform)
+
+    HAS_PYGMENTS_TRANSFORMS = True
+except ImportError:
+    HAS_PYGMENTS_TRANSFORMS = False
+
+register_base_transforms(ENGINE, verb=False)