diff -r cb8ccbef8fa5 -r a5e6acffde30 web/views/csvexport.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/web/views/csvexport.py	Wed Feb 18 19:26:48 2009 +0100
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+"""csv export views
+
+:organization: Logilab
+:copyright: 2001-2009 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE), all rights reserved.
+:contact: http://www.logilab.fr/ -- mailto:contact@logilab.fr
+"""
+__docformat__ = "restructuredtext en"
+
+from cubicweb.common.uilib import UnicodeCSVWriter
+from cubicweb.view import EntityView, AnyRsetView
+
+class CSVMixIn(object):
+    """mixin class for CSV views"""
+    templatable = False
+    content_type = "text/comma-separated-values"    
+    binary = True # avoid unicode assertion
+    csv_params = {'dialect': 'excel',
+                  'quotechar': '"',
+                  'delimiter': ';',
+                  'lineterminator': '\n'}
+    
+    def set_request_content_type(self):
+        """overriden to set a .csv filename"""
+        self.req.set_content_type(self.content_type, filename='cubicwebexport.csv')
+            
+    def csvwriter(self, **kwargs):
+        params = self.csv_params.copy()
+        params.update(kwargs)
+        return UnicodeCSVWriter(self.w, self.req.encoding, **params)
+
+    
+class CSVRsetView(CSVMixIn, AnyRsetView):
+    """dumps raw result set in CSV"""
+    id = 'csvexport'
+    title = _('csv export')
+        
+    def call(self):
+        writer = self.csvwriter()
+        writer.writerow(self.columns_labels())
+        rset, descr = self.rset, self.rset.description
+        eschema = self.schema.eschema
+        for rowindex, row in enumerate(rset):
+            csvrow = []
+            for colindex, val in enumerate(row):
+                etype = descr[rowindex][colindex]
+                if val is not None and not eschema(etype).is_final():
+                    # csvrow.append(val) # val is eid in that case
+                    content = self.view('textincontext', rset, 
+                                        row=rowindex, col=colindex)
+                else:
+                    content = self.view('final', rset,
+                                        displaytime=True, format='text/plain',
+                                        row=rowindex, col=colindex)
+                csvrow.append(content)                    
+            writer.writerow(csvrow)
+    
+    
+class CSVEntityView(CSVMixIn, EntityView):
+    """dumps rset's entities (with full set of attributes) in CSV
+
+    the generated CSV file will have a table per entity type found in the
+    resultset. ('table' here only means empty lines separation between table
+    contents)
+    """
+    id = 'ecsvexport'
+    title = _('csv entities export')
+
+    def call(self):
+        req = self.req
+        rows_by_type = {}
+        writer = self.csvwriter()
+        rowdef_by_type = {}
+        for index in xrange(len(self.rset)):
+            entity = self.complete_entity(index)
+            if entity.e_schema not in rows_by_type:
+                rowdef_by_type[entity.e_schema] = [rs for rs, at in entity.e_schema.attribute_definitions()
+                                                   if at != 'Bytes']
+                rows_by_type[entity.e_schema] = [[display_name(req, rschema.type)
+                                                  for rschema in rowdef_by_type[entity.e_schema]]]
+            rows = rows_by_type[entity.e_schema]
+            rows.append([entity.printable_value(rs.type, format='text/plain')
+                         for rs in rowdef_by_type[entity.e_schema]])
+        for rows in rows_by_type.itervalues():
+            writer.writerows(rows)
+            # use two empty lines as separator
+            writer.writerows([[], []])        
+