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+"""
+Utility functions to return a formatted name and description for a given view.
+"""
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from django.utils.html import escape
+from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
+from rest_framework.compat import apply_markdown
+import re
+
+
+def _remove_trailing_string(content, trailing):
+    """
+    Strip trailing component `trailing` from `content` if it exists.
+    Used when generating names from view classes.
+    """
+    if content.endswith(trailing) and content != trailing:
+        return content[:-len(trailing)]
+    return content
+
+
+def _remove_leading_indent(content):
+    """
+    Remove leading indent from a block of text.
+    Used when generating descriptions from docstrings.
+    """
+    whitespace_counts = [len(line) - len(line.lstrip(' '))
+                         for line in content.splitlines()[1:] if line.lstrip()]
+
+    # unindent the content if needed
+    if whitespace_counts:
+        whitespace_pattern = '^' + (' ' * min(whitespace_counts))
+        content = re.sub(re.compile(whitespace_pattern, re.MULTILINE), '', content)
+    content = content.strip('\n')
+    return content
+
+
+def _camelcase_to_spaces(content):
+    """
+    Translate 'CamelCaseNames' to 'Camel Case Names'.
+    Used when generating names from view classes.
+    """
+    camelcase_boundry = '(((?<=[a-z])[A-Z])|([A-Z](?![A-Z]|$)))'
+    content = re.sub(camelcase_boundry, ' \\1', content).strip()
+    return ' '.join(content.split('_')).title()
+
+
+def get_view_name(cls):
+    """
+    Return a formatted name for an `APIView` class or `@api_view` function.
+    """
+    name = cls.__name__
+    name = _remove_trailing_string(name, 'View')
+    name = _remove_trailing_string(name, 'ViewSet')
+    return _camelcase_to_spaces(name)
+
+
+def get_view_description(cls, html=False):
+    """
+    Return a description for an `APIView` class or `@api_view` function.
+    """
+    description = cls.__doc__ or ''
+    description = _remove_leading_indent(description)
+    if html:
+        return markup_description(description)
+    return description
+
+
+def markup_description(description):
+    """
+    Apply HTML markup to the given description.
+    """
+    if apply_markdown:
+        description = apply_markdown(description)
+    else:
+        description = escape(description).replace('\n', '<br />')
+    return mark_safe(description)