diff -r 058bb3dc685f -r 0b59724cb3f2 cubicweb/web/views/pyviews.py
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+++ b/cubicweb/web/views/pyviews.py	Sat Jan 16 13:48:51 2016 +0100
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+# copyright 2003-2011 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/>.
+"""Basic views for python values (eg without any result set)
+"""
+__docformat__ = "restructuredtext en"
+
+from six import text_type
+from six.moves import range
+
+from cubicweb.view import View
+from cubicweb.predicates import match_kwargs
+from cubicweb.web.views import tableview
+
+
+class PyValTableColRenderer(tableview.AbstractColumnRenderer):
+    """Default column renderer for :class:`PyValTableView`."""
+    def bind(self, view, colid):
+        super(PyValTableColRenderer, self).bind(view, colid)
+        self.header = view.headers[colid] if view.headers else None
+        self.data = view.pyvalue
+
+    def render_header(self, w):
+        if self.header:
+            w(self._cw._(self.header))
+        else:
+            w(self.empty_cell_content)
+
+    def render_cell(self, w, rownum):
+        w(text_type(self.data[rownum][self.colid]))
+
+
+class PyValTableView(tableview.TableMixIn, View):
+    """This table view is designed to be used a list of list of unicode values
+    given as a mandatory `pyvalue` argument. Take care, content is NOT
+    xml-escaped.
+
+    It's configured through the following selection arguments.
+
+    If `headers` is specified, it is expected to be a list of headers to be
+    inserted as first row (in <thead>).
+
+    `header_column_idx` may be used to specify a column index or a set of column
+    indiced where values should be inserted inside <th> tag instead of <td>.
+
+    `cssclass` is the CSS class used on the <table> tag, and default to
+    'listing' (so that the table will look similar to those generated by the
+    table view).
+    """
+    __regid__ = 'pyvaltable'
+    __select__ = match_kwargs('pyvalue')
+    default_column_renderer_class = PyValTableColRenderer
+    paginable = False # not supported
+    headers = None
+    cssclass = None
+    domid = None
+
+    def __init__(self, req, pyvalue, headers=None, cssclass=None,
+                 header_column_idx=None, **kwargs):
+        super(PyValTableView, self).__init__(req, **kwargs)
+        self.pyvalue = pyvalue
+        if headers is not None:
+            self.headers = headers
+        elif self.headers: # headers set on a class attribute, translate
+            self.headers = [self._cw._(header) for header in self.headers]
+        if cssclass is not None:
+            self.cssclass = cssclass
+        self.header_column_idx = header_column_idx
+
+    @property
+    def layout_args(self):
+        args = {}
+        if self.cssclass:
+            args['cssclass'] = self.cssclass
+        if self.header_column_idx is not None:
+            args['header_column_idx'] = self.header_column_idx
+        return args
+
+    # layout callbacks #########################################################
+
+    @property
+    def table_size(self):
+        """return the number of rows (header excluded) to be displayed"""
+        return len(self.pyvalue)
+
+    @property
+    def has_headers(self):
+        return self.headers
+
+    def build_column_renderers(self):
+        return [self.column_renderer(colid)
+                for colid in range(len(self.pyvalue[0]))]
+
+    def facets_form(self, mainvar=None):
+        return None # not supported
+
+    def table_actions(self):
+        return [] # not supported
+
+
+class PyValListView(View):
+    """display a list of values into an html list.
+
+    Take care, content is NOT xml-escaped.
+    """
+    __regid__ = 'pyvallist'
+    __select__ = match_kwargs('pyvalue')
+
+    def call(self, pyvalue):
+        self.w(u'<ul>\n')
+        for line in pyvalue:
+            self.w(u'<li>%s</li>\n' % line)
+        self.w(u'</ul>\n')