1 files changed, 132 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/rest/utils.py b/src/rest/utils.py
index fb655bd8..b80ed9a7 100644
--- a/src/rest/utils.py
+++ b/src/rest/utils.py
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
-# From piston...
+import re
+import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
+from django.utils.encoding import smart_unicode
+from django.utils.xmlutils import SimplerXMLGenerator
+try:
+    import cStringIO as StringIO
+except ImportError:
+    import StringIO
 
+# From piston
 def coerce_put_post(request):
     """
     Django doesn't particularly understand REST.
@@ -37,3 +45,126 @@ def coerce_put_post(request):
         request.META['REQUEST_METHOD'] = 'PUT'
         
     request.PUT = request.POST
+
+# From http://www.koders.com/python/fidB6E125C586A6F49EAC38992CF3AFDAAE35651975.aspx?s=mdef:xml
+#class object_dict(dict):
+#    """object view of dict, you can 
+#    >>> a = object_dict()
+#    >>> a.fish = 'fish'
+#    >>> a['fish']
+#    'fish'
+#    >>> a['water'] = 'water'
+#    >>> a.water
+#    'water'
+#    >>> a.test = {'value': 1}
+#    >>> a.test2 = object_dict({'name': 'test2', 'value': 2})
+#    >>> a.test, a.test2.name, a.test2.value
+#    (1, 'test2', 2)
+#    """
+#    def __init__(self, initd=None):
+#        if initd is None:
+#            initd = {}
+#        dict.__init__(self, initd)
+#
+#    def __getattr__(self, item):
+#        d = self.__getitem__(item)
+#        # if value is the only key in object, you can omit it
+#        if isinstance(d, dict) and 'value' in d and len(d) == 1:
+#            return d['value']
+#        else:
+#            return d
+#
+#    def __setattr__(self, item, value):
+#        self.__setitem__(item, value)
+
+
+# From xml2dict
+class XML2Dict(object):
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        pass
+
+    def _parse_node(self, node):
+        node_tree = {}
+        # Save attrs and text, hope there will not be a child with same name
+        if node.text:
+            node_tree = node.text
+        for (k,v) in node.attrib.items():
+            k,v = self._namespace_split(k, v)
+            node_tree[k] = v
+        #Save childrens
+        for child in node.getchildren():
+            tag, tree = self._namespace_split(child.tag, self._parse_node(child))
+            if  tag not in node_tree: # the first time, so store it in dict
+                node_tree[tag] = tree
+                continue
+            old = node_tree[tag]
+            if not isinstance(old, list):
+                node_tree.pop(tag)
+                node_tree[tag] = [old] # multi times, so change old dict to a list       
+            node_tree[tag].append(tree) # add the new one      
+
+        return  node_tree
+
+
+    def _namespace_split(self, tag, value):
+        """
+           Split the tag  '{http://cs.sfsu.edu/csc867/myscheduler}patients'
+             ns = http://cs.sfsu.edu/csc867/myscheduler
+             name = patients
+        """
+        result = re.compile("\{(.*)\}(.*)").search(tag)
+        if result:
+            print tag
+            value.namespace, tag = result.groups()    
+        return (tag, value)
+
+    def parse(self, file):
+        """parse a xml file to a dict"""
+        f = open(file, 'r')
+        return self.fromstring(f.read()) 
+
+    def fromstring(self, s):
+        """parse a string"""
+        t = ET.fromstring(s)
+        unused_root_tag, root_tree = self._namespace_split(t.tag, self._parse_node(t))
+        return root_tree
+
+
+def xml2dict(input):
+    return XML2Dict().fromstring(input)
+
+
+# Piston:
+class XMLEmitter():
+    def _to_xml(self, xml, data):
+        if isinstance(data, (list, tuple)):
+            for item in data:
+                xml.startElement("resource", {})
+                self._to_xml(xml, item)
+                xml.endElement("resource")
+
+        elif isinstance(data, dict):
+            for key, value in data.iteritems():
+                xml.startElement(key, {})
+                self._to_xml(xml, value)
+                xml.endElement(key)
+
+        else:
+            xml.characters(smart_unicode(data))
+
+    def dict2xml(self, data):
+        stream = StringIO.StringIO() 
+
+        xml = SimplerXMLGenerator(stream, "utf-8")
+        xml.startDocument()
+        xml.startElement("content", {})
+
+        self._to_xml(xml, data)
+
+        xml.endElement("content")
+        xml.endDocument()
+        return stream.getvalue()
+
+def dict2xml(input):
+    return XMLEmitter().dict2xml(input)