diff -r 000000000000 -r b97547f5f1fa web/views/timeline.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/web/views/timeline.py	Wed Nov 05 15:52:50 2008 +0100
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+"""basic support for SIMILE's timline widgets
+
+cf. http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/
+
+:organization: Logilab
+:copyright: 2008 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE), all rights reserved.
+:contact: http://www.logilab.fr/ -- mailto:contact@logilab.fr
+"""
+__docformat__ = "restructuredtext en"
+
+import simplejson
+
+from logilab.mtconverter import html_escape
+
+from cubicweb.interfaces import ICalendarable
+from cubicweb.common.view import EntityView, StartupView
+from cubicweb.common.selectors import interface_selector
+
+
+# 
+class TimelineJsonView(EntityView):
+    """generates a json file to feed Timeline.loadJSON()
+    NOTE: work in progress (image_url, bubbleUrl and so on
+    should be properties of entity classes or subviews)
+    """
+    id = 'timeline-json'
+    binary = True
+    templatable = False
+    content_type = 'application/json'
+
+    __selectors__ = (interface_selector,)
+    accepts_interfaces = (ICalendarable,)
+    date_fmt = '%Y/%m/%d'
+    
+    def call(self):
+        events = []
+        for entity in self.rset.entities():
+            event = self.build_event(entity)
+            if event is not None:
+                events.append(event)
+        timeline_data = {'dateTimeFormat': self.date_fmt,
+                         'events': events}
+        self.w(simplejson.dumps(timeline_data))
+
+    # FIXME: those properties should be defined by the entity class
+    def onclick_url(self, entity):
+        return entity.absolute_url()
+    
+    def onclick(self, entity):
+        url = self.onclick_url(entity)
+        if url:
+            return u"javascript: document.location.href='%s'" % url
+        return None
+    
+    def build_event(self, entity):
+        """converts `entity` into a JSON object
+        {'start': '1891',
+        'end': '1915',
+        'title': 'Portrait of Horace Brodsky',
+        'description': 'by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, French Sculptor, 1891-1915',
+        'image': 'http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/BRGPOD/102770_b.jpg',
+        'link': 'http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Portrait-of-Horace-Brodsky-Posters_i1584413_.htm'
+        }
+        """
+        start = entity.start
+        stop = entity.stop
+        start = start or stop
+        if start is None and stop is None:
+            return None
+        event_data = {'start': start.strftime(self.date_fmt),
+                      'title': html_escape(entity.dc_title()),
+                      'description': entity.dc_description(),
+                      'link': entity.absolute_url(),
+                      }
+        onclick = self.onclick(entity)
+        if onclick:
+            event_data['onclick'] = onclick
+        if stop:
+            event_data['end'] = stop.strftime(self.date_fmt)
+        return event_data
+
+    
+class TimelineViewMixIn(object):
+    widget_class = 'TimelineWidget'
+    jsfiles = ('cubicweb.timeline-bundle.js', 'cubicweb.widgets.js',
+               'cubicweb.timeline-ext.js', 'cubicweb.ajax.js')
+    
+    def render(self, loadurl, tlunit=None):
+        tlunit = tlunit or self.req.form.get('tlunit')
+        self.req.add_js(self.jsfiles)
+        self.req.add_css('timeline-bundle.css')
+        if tlunit:
+            additional = u' cubicweb:tlunit="%s"' % tlunit
+        else:
+            additional = u''
+        self.w(u'<div class="widget" cubicweb:wdgtype="%s" '
+               u'cubicweb:loadtype="auto" cubicweb:loadurl="%s" %s >' %
+               (self.widget_class, html_escape(loadurl),
+                additional))
+        self.w(u'</div>')
+
+
+class TimelineView(TimelineViewMixIn, EntityView):
+    """builds a cubicweb timeline widget node"""
+    id = 'timeline'
+    __selectors__ = (interface_selector,)
+    accepts_interfaces = (ICalendarable,)
+    need_navigation = False
+    def call(self, tlunit=None):
+        self.req.html_headers.define_var('Timeline_urlPrefix', self.req.datadir_url)
+        rql = self.rset.printable_rql()
+        loadurl = self.build_url(rql=rql, vid='timeline-json')
+        self.render(loadurl, tlunit)
+        
+    
+class StaticTimelineView(TimelineViewMixIn, StartupView):
+    """similar to `TimelineView` but loads data from a static
+    JSON file instead of one after a RQL query.
+    """
+    id = 'static-timeline'
+    
+    def call(self, loadurl, tlunit=None, wdgclass=None):
+        self.widget_class = wdgclass or self.widget_clas
+        self.render(loadurl, tlunit)