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authorTom Christie2011-04-29 14:32:56 +0100
committerTom Christie2011-04-29 14:32:56 +0100
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More refactoring - move various less core stuff into utils etc
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+"""Renderers are used to serialize a Resource's output into specific media types.
+django-rest-framework also provides HTML and PlainText renderers that help self-document the API,
+by serializing the output along with documentation regarding the Resource, output status and headers,
+and providing forms and links depending on the allowed methods, renderers and parsers on the Resource.
+"""
+from django import forms
+from django.conf import settings
+from django.template import RequestContext, loader
+from django.utils import simplejson as json
+from django import forms
+
+from djangorestframework.utils import dict2xml, url_resolves
+from djangorestframework.compat import apply_markdown
+from djangorestframework.utils.breadcrumbs import get_breadcrumbs
+from djangorestframework.utils.description import get_name, get_description
+from djangorestframework import status
+
+from urllib import quote_plus
+import string
+import re
+from decimal import Decimal
+
+# TODO: Rename verbose to something more appropriate
+# TODO: Maybe None could be handled more cleanly. It'd be nice if it was handled by default,
+# and only have an renderer output anything if it explicitly provides support for that.
+
+class BaseRenderer(object):
+ """All renderers must extend this class, set the media_type attribute, and
+ override the render() function."""
+ media_type = None
+
+ def __init__(self, resource):
+ self.resource = resource
+
+ def render(self, output=None, verbose=False):
+ """By default render simply returns the ouput as-is.
+ Override this method to provide for other behaviour."""
+ if output is None:
+ return ''
+
+ return output
+
+
+class TemplateRenderer(BaseRenderer):
+ """Provided for convienience.
+ Emit the output by simply rendering it with the given template."""
+ media_type = None
+ template = None
+
+ def render(self, output=None, verbose=False):
+ if output is None:
+ return ''
+
+ context = RequestContext(self.request, output)
+ return self.template.render(context)
+
+
+class DocumentingTemplateRenderer(BaseRenderer):
+ """Base class for renderers used to self-document the API.
+ Implementing classes should extend this class and set the template attribute."""
+ template = None
+
+ def _get_content(self, resource, request, output):
+ """Get the content as if it had been renderted by a non-documenting renderer.
+
+ (Typically this will be the content as it would have been if the Resource had been
+ requested with an 'Accept: */*' header, although with verbose style formatting if appropriate.)"""
+
+ # Find the first valid renderer and render the content. (Don't use another documenting renderer.)
+ renderers = [renderer for renderer in resource.renderers if not isinstance(renderer, DocumentingTemplateRenderer)]
+ if not renderers:
+ return '[No renderers were found]'
+
+ content = renderers[0](resource).render(output, verbose=True)
+ if not all(char in string.printable for char in content):
+ return '[%d bytes of binary content]'
+
+ return content
+
+
+ def _get_form_instance(self, resource):
+ """Get a form, possibly bound to either the input or output data.
+ In the absence on of the Resource having an associated form then
+ provide a form that can be used to submit arbitrary content."""
+ # Get the form instance if we have one bound to the input
+ #form_instance = resource.form_instance
+ # TODO! Reinstate this
+
+ form_instance = getattr(resource, 'bound_form_instance', None)
+
+ if not form_instance and hasattr(resource, 'get_bound_form'):
+ # Otherwise if we have a response that is valid against the form then use that
+ if resource.response.has_content_body:
+ try:
+ form_instance = resource.get_bound_form(resource.response.cleaned_content)
+ if form_instance and not form_instance.is_valid():
+ form_instance = None
+ except:
+ form_instance = None
+
+ # If we still don't have a form instance then try to get an unbound form
+ if not form_instance:
+ try:
+ form_instance = resource.get_bound_form()
+ except:
+ pass
+
+ # If we still don't have a form instance then try to get an unbound form which can tunnel arbitrary content types
+ if not form_instance:
+ form_instance = self._get_generic_content_form(resource)
+
+ return form_instance
+
+
+ def _get_generic_content_form(self, resource):
+ """Returns a form that allows for arbitrary content types to be tunneled via standard HTML forms
+ (Which are typically application/x-www-form-urlencoded)"""
+
+ # If we're not using content overloading there's no point in supplying a generic form,
+ # as the resource won't treat the form's value as the content of the request.
+ if not getattr(resource, 'USE_FORM_OVERLOADING', False):
+ return None
+
+ # NB. http://jacobian.org/writing/dynamic-form-generation/
+ class GenericContentForm(forms.Form):
+ def __init__(self, resource):
+ """We don't know the names of the fields we want to set until the point the form is instantiated,
+ as they are determined by the Resource the form is being created against.
+ Add the fields dynamically."""
+ super(GenericContentForm, self).__init__()
+
+ contenttype_choices = [(media_type, media_type) for media_type in resource.parsed_media_types]
+ initial_contenttype = resource.default_parser.media_type
+
+ self.fields[resource.CONTENTTYPE_PARAM] = forms.ChoiceField(label='Content Type',
+ choices=contenttype_choices,
+ initial=initial_contenttype)
+ self.fields[resource.CONTENT_PARAM] = forms.CharField(label='Content',
+ widget=forms.Textarea)
+
+ # If either of these reserved parameters are turned off then content tunneling is not possible
+ if self.resource.CONTENTTYPE_PARAM is None or self.resource.CONTENT_PARAM is None:
+ return None
+
+ # Okey doke, let's do it
+ return GenericContentForm(resource)
+
+
+ def render(self, output=None):
+ content = self._get_content(self.resource, self.resource.request, output)
+ form_instance = self._get_form_instance(self.resource)
+
+ if url_resolves(settings.LOGIN_URL) and url_resolves(settings.LOGOUT_URL):
+ login_url = "%s?next=%s" % (settings.LOGIN_URL, quote_plus(self.resource.request.path))
+ logout_url = "%s?next=%s" % (settings.LOGOUT_URL, quote_plus(self.resource.request.path))
+ else:
+ login_url = None
+ logout_url = None
+
+ name = get_name(self.resource)
+ description = get_description(self.resource)
+
+ markeddown = None
+ if apply_markdown:
+ try:
+ markeddown = apply_markdown(description)
+ except AttributeError: # TODO: possibly split the get_description / get_name into a mixin class
+ markeddown = None
+
+ breadcrumb_list = get_breadcrumbs(self.resource.request.path)
+
+ template = loader.get_template(self.template)
+ context = RequestContext(self.resource.request, {
+ 'content': content,
+ 'resource': self.resource,
+ 'request': self.resource.request,
+ 'response': self.resource.response,
+ 'description': description,
+ 'name': name,
+ 'markeddown': markeddown,
+ 'breadcrumblist': breadcrumb_list,
+ 'form': form_instance,
+ 'login_url': login_url,
+ 'logout_url': logout_url,
+ 'ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX': settings.ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX
+ })
+
+ ret = template.render(context)
+
+ return ret
+
+
+class JSONRenderer(BaseRenderer):
+ """Renderer which serializes to JSON"""
+ media_type = 'application/json'
+
+ def render(self, output=None, verbose=False):
+ if output is None:
+ return ''
+ if verbose:
+ return json.dumps(output, indent=4, sort_keys=True)
+ return json.dumps(output)
+
+
+class XMLRenderer(BaseRenderer):
+ """Renderer which serializes to XML."""
+ media_type = 'application/xml'
+
+ def render(self, output=None, verbose=False):
+ if output is None:
+ return ''
+ return dict2xml(output)
+
+
+class DocumentingHTMLRenderer(DocumentingTemplateRenderer):
+ """Renderer which provides a browsable HTML interface for an API.
+ See the examples listed in the django-rest-framework documentation to see this in actions."""
+ media_type = 'text/html'
+ template = 'renderer.html'
+
+
+class DocumentingXHTMLRenderer(DocumentingTemplateRenderer):
+ """Identical to DocumentingHTMLRenderer, except with an xhtml media type.
+ We need this to be listed in preference to xml in order to return HTML to WebKit based browsers,
+ given their Accept headers."""
+ media_type = 'application/xhtml+xml'
+ template = 'renderer.html'
+
+
+class DocumentingPlainTextRenderer(DocumentingTemplateRenderer):
+ """Renderer that serializes the output with the default renderer, but also provides plain-text
+ doumentation of the returned status and headers, and of the resource's name and description.
+ Useful for browsing an API with command line tools."""
+ media_type = 'text/plain'
+ template = 'renderer.txt'
+
+DEFAULT_RENDERERS = ( JSONRenderer,
+ DocumentingHTMLRenderer,
+ DocumentingXHTMLRenderer,
+ DocumentingPlainTextRenderer,
+ XMLRenderer )
+
+