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"""
The :mod:`views` module provides the Views you will most probably
be subclassing in your implementation.

By setting or modifying class attributes on your view, you change it's predefined behaviour.
"""

from django.core.urlresolvers import set_script_prefix
from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt

from djangorestframework.compat import View
from djangorestframework.response import Response, ErrorResponse
from djangorestframework.mixins import *
from djangorestframework import resources, renderers, parsers, authentication, permissions, status


__all__ = (
    'BaseView',
    'ModelView',
    'InstanceModelView',
    'ListModelView',
    'ListOrCreateModelView'
)



class BaseView(ResourceMixin, RequestMixin, ResponseMixin, AuthMixin, View):
    """
    Handles incoming requests and maps them to REST operations.
    Performs request deserialization, response serialization, authentication and input validation.
    """

    # Use the base resource by default
    resource = resources.Resource

    renderers = ( renderers.JSONRenderer,
                  renderers.DocumentingHTMLRenderer,
                  renderers.DocumentingXHTMLRenderer,
                  renderers.DocumentingPlainTextRenderer,
                  renderers.XMLRenderer )
    """ List of renderers the resource can serialize the response with, ordered by preference."""
    
    parsers = ( parsers.JSONParser,
                parsers.FormParser,
                parsers.MultiPartParser )
    """ List of parsers the resource can parse the request with."""

    authentication = ( authentication.UserLoggedInAuthenticaton,
                       authentication.BasicAuthenticaton )
    """ List of all authenticating methods to attempt."""
    
    permissions = ( permissions.FullAnonAccess, )
    """ List of all permissions that must be checked."""
    
    # Allow name and description for the Resource to be set explicitly,
    # overiding the default classname/docstring behaviour.
    # These are used for documentation in the standard html and text renderers.
    name = None
    description = None

    @property
    def allowed_methods(self):
        """
        Return the list of allowed HTTP methods, uppercased.
        """
        return [method.upper() for method in self.http_method_names if hasattr(self, method)]


    def http_method_not_allowed(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        """
        Return an HTTP 405 error if an operation is called which does not have a handler method.        
        """
        raise ErrorResponse(status.HTTP_405_METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED,
                            {'detail': 'Method \'%s\' not allowed on this resource.' % self.method})


    # Note: session based authentication is explicitly CSRF validated,
    # all other authentication is CSRF exempt.
    @csrf_exempt
    def dispatch(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        self.request = request
        self.args = args
        self.kwargs = kwargs

        # Calls to 'reverse' will not be fully qualified unless we set the scheme/host/port here.
        prefix = '%s://%s' % (request.is_secure() and 'https' or 'http', request.get_host())
        set_script_prefix(prefix)

        try:
            # Authenticate and check request has the relevant permissions
            self._check_permissions()

            # Get the appropriate handler method
            if self.method.lower() in self.http_method_names:
                handler = getattr(self, self.method.lower(), self.http_method_not_allowed)
            else:
                handler = self.http_method_not_allowed

            response_obj = handler(request, *args, **kwargs)

            # Allow return value to be either Response, or an object, or None
            if isinstance(response_obj, Response):
                response = response_obj
            elif response_obj is not None:
                response = Response(status.HTTP_200_OK, response_obj)
            else:
                response = Response(status.HTTP_204_NO_CONTENT)

            # Pre-serialize filtering (eg filter complex objects into natively serializable types)
            response.cleaned_content = self.filter_response(response.raw_content)
    
        except ErrorResponse, exc:
            response = exc.response

        # Always add these headers.
        #
        # TODO - this isn't actually the correct way to set the vary header,
        # also it's currently sub-obtimal for HTTP caching - need to sort that out. 
        response.headers['Allow'] = ', '.join(self.allowed_methods)
        response.headers['Vary'] = 'Authenticate, Accept'

        return self.render(response)
    


class ModelView(BaseView):
    """A RESTful view that maps to a model in the database."""
    resource = resources.ModelResource

class InstanceModelView(InstanceMixin, ReadModelMixin, UpdateModelMixin, DeleteModelMixin, ModelView):
    """A view which provides default operations for read/update/delete against a model instance."""
    pass

class ListModelView(ListModelMixin, ModelView):
    """A view which provides default operations for list, against a model in the database."""
    pass

class ListOrCreateModelView(ListModelMixin, CreateModelMixin, ModelView):
    """A view which provides default operations for list and create, against a model in the database."""
    pass