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mayan-edms/apps/documents/metadata.py
2011-04-23 02:49:07 -04:00

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'''Metadata handling commonalities
'''
from urllib import unquote_plus
from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404
from django.core.exceptions import ObjectDoesNotExist
from documents.models import DocumentMetadata, MetadataType
def decode_metadata_from_url(url_dict):
'''Parses a URL query string to a list of metadata
'''
metadata_dict = {
'id': {},
'value': {}
}
metadata_list = []
#Match out of order metadata_type ids with metadata values from request
for key, value in url_dict.items():
if 'metadata' in key:
index, element = key[8:].split('_')
metadata_dict[element][index] = value
#Convert the nested dictionary into a list of id+values dictionaries
for order, identifier in metadata_dict['id'].items():
if order in metadata_dict['value'].keys():
metadata_list.append({
'id': identifier,
'value': metadata_dict['value'][order]
})
return metadata_list
def save_metadata_list(metadata_list, document):
'''Takes a list of metadata values and associates a document to it
'''
for item in metadata_list:
if item['value']:
save_metadata(item, document)
else:
#If there is no metadata value, delete the metadata entry
#completely from the document
try:
metadata_type = MetadataType.objects.get(id=item['id'])
document_metadata = DocumentMetadata.objects.get(
document=document,
metadata_type=metadata_type
)
document_metadata.delete()
except ObjectDoesNotExist:
pass
def save_metadata(metadata_dict, document):
'''save metadata_dict
'''
#Use matched metadata now to create document metadata
document_metadata, created = DocumentMetadata.objects.get_or_create(
document=document,
metadata_type=get_object_or_404(
MetadataType,
pk=metadata_dict['id']
),
)
#Handle 'plus sign as space' in the url
#unquote_plus handles utf-8?!?
#http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4382875/handling-iri-in-django
#.decode('utf-8')
document_metadata.value = unquote_plus(metadata_dict['value'])
document_metadata.save()
def metadata_repr(metadata_list):
'''Return a printable representation of a metadata list
'''
return ', '.join(metadata_repr_as_list(metadata_list))
def metadata_repr_as_list(metadata_list):
'''Turn a list of metadata into a list of printable representations
'''
output = []
for metadata_dict in metadata_list:
try:
output.append(u'%s - %s' % (MetadataType.objects.get(
pk=metadata_dict['id']), metadata_dict.get('value', '')))
except:
pass
return output