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+# copyright 2003-2012 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/>.
+"""CubicWeb web client core. You'll need a apache-modpython or twisted
+publisher to get a full CubicWeb web application
+"""
+
+__docformat__ = "restructuredtext en"
+from cubicweb import _
+
+from six.moves.urllib.parse import quote as urlquote
+from logilab.common.deprecation import deprecated
+
+from cubicweb.web._exceptions import *
+from cubicweb.utils import json_dumps
+from cubicweb.uilib import eid_param
+
+assert json_dumps is not None, 'no json module installed'
+
+INTERNAL_FIELD_VALUE = '__cubicweb_internal_field__'
+
+
+class stdmsgs(object):
+    """standard ui message (in a class for bw compat)"""
+    BUTTON_OK     = (_('button_ok'), 'OK_ICON')
+    BUTTON_APPLY  = (_('button_apply'), 'APPLY_ICON')
+    BUTTON_CANCEL = (_('button_cancel'), 'CANCEL_ICON')
+    BUTTON_DELETE = (_('button_delete'), 'TRASH_ICON')
+    YES = (_('yes'), None)
+    NO  = (_('no'), None)
+
+
+from logging import getLogger
+LOGGER = getLogger('cubicweb.web')
+
+# XXX deprecated
+FACETTES = set()
+
+
+def jsonize(function):
+    def newfunc(*args, **kwargs):
+        value = function(*args, **kwargs)
+        try:
+            return json_dumps(value)
+        except TypeError:
+            return json_dumps(repr(value))
+    return newfunc