view news/management/commands/import_old_news.py @ 79:fa58c0277e26

Added Pipeline blurb about Tribal Fires to front page. Removed MySpace links.
author Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com>
date Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:37:19 -0500
parents e2868ad47a1e
children b7cdfdde3999
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"""
import_old_news.py - For importing news stories from the older version of this
website.

"""
import datetime

from django.conf import settings
from django.core.management.base import LabelCommand
from django.utils import simplejson as json
from django.utils.html import linebreaks
import textile

from news.models import News

IMG_TAG = u"""\
<img src="{src}" class="floatLeftBox" alt="{title}" title="{title}" border="0" />"""


class Command(LabelCommand):
    args = '<filename filename ...>'
    help = 'Imports older news stories in JSON format'

    def handle_label(self, filename, **options):
        """
        Process the file of older news stories in JSON. Convert to the new model
        scheme.

        """
        with open(filename, 'rb') as f:
            items = json.load(f)

        for item in items:
            if item['model'] == 'band.news':
                self.process_item(item)

    def process_item(self, item):

        fields = item['fields']

        content = fields['text'].strip()
        if fields['markup_enabled']:
            content = textile.textile(content, encoding='utf-8', output='utf-8')
        else:
            content = linebreaks(fields['text'])

        author = fields['author'].strip()
        if author:
            content += u"<p>\u2013&nbsp;%s" % author

        image = fields['photo'].strip()
        if image:
            caption = fields['photo_caption'].strip()
            caption = caption if caption else 'Image'

            src = u"%s%s" % (settings.MEDIA_URL, image)

            content = IMG_TAG.format(src=src, title=caption) + content

        news = News(id=item['pk'],
                title=fields['title'].strip(),
                date=datetime.datetime.strptime(fields['date'], '%Y-%m-%d'),
                content=content)

        news.save()