diff -r 000000000000 -r b97547f5f1fa web/views/__init__.py
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+"""Views/forms and actions for the CubicWeb web client
+
+:organization: Logilab
+:copyright: 2001-2008 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE), all rights reserved.
+:contact: http://www.logilab.fr/ -- mailto:contact@logilab.fr
+"""
+__docformat__ = "restructuredtext en"
+    
+from rql import nodes
+
+def need_table_view(rset, schema):
+    """return True if we think that a table view is more appropriate than a
+    list or primary view to display the given result set
+    """
+    rqlst = rset.syntax_tree()
+    if len(rqlst.children) > 1:
+        # UNION query, use a table
+        return True
+    selected = rqlst.children[0].selection
+    try:
+        mainvar = selected[0]
+    except AttributeError:
+        # not a variable ref, using table view is probably a good option
+        return True
+    if not (isinstance(mainvar, nodes.VariableRef) or
+            (isinstance(mainvar, nodes.Constant) and mainvar.uid)):
+        return True
+    for i, etype in enumerate(rset.description[0][1:]):
+        # etype may be None on outer join
+        if etype is None:
+            return True
+        # check the selected index node is a VariableRef (else we
+        # won't detect aggregate function
+        if not isinstance(selected[i+1], nodes.VariableRef):
+            return True
+        # if this is not a final entity
+        if not schema.eschema(etype).is_final():
+            return True
+        # if this is a final entity not linked to the main variable
+        var = selected[i+1].variable
+        for vref in var.references():
+            rel = vref.relation()
+            if rel is None:
+                continue
+            if mainvar.is_equivalent(rel.children[0]):
+                break
+        else:
+            return True
+    return False
+
+
+def vid_from_rset(req, rset, schema):
+    """given a result set, return a view id"""
+    if rset is None:
+        return 'index'
+    nb_rows = len(rset)
+    # empty resultset
+    if nb_rows == 0 :
+        return 'noresult'
+    # entity result set
+    if not schema.eschema(rset.description[0][0]).is_final():
+        if need_table_view(rset, schema):
+            return 'table'
+        if nb_rows == 1:
+            if req.search_state[0] == 'normal':
+                return 'primary'
+            return 'outofcontext-search'
+        return 'list'
+    return 'table'
+
+def linksearch_match(req, rset):
+    """when searching an entity to create a relation, return True if entities in
+    the given rset may be used as relation end
+    """
+    try:
+        searchedtype = req.search_state[1][-1]
+    except IndexError:
+        return 0 # no searching for association
+    for etype in rset.column_types(0):
+        if etype != searchedtype:
+            return 0
+    return 1
+    
+def linksearch_select_url(req, rset):
+    """when searching an entity to create a relation, return an url to select
+    entities in the given rset
+    """
+    req.add_js( ('cubicweb.ajax.js', 'cubicweb.edition.js') )
+    target, link_eid, r_type, searchedtype = req.search_state[1]
+    if target == 'subject':
+        id_fmt = '%s:%s:%%s' % (link_eid, r_type)
+    else:
+        id_fmt = '%%s:%s:%s' % (r_type, link_eid)
+    triplets = '-'.join(id_fmt % row[0] for row in rset.rows)
+    return "javascript: selectForAssociation('%s', '%s');" % (triplets,
+                                                              link_eid)