view forums/views/attachments.py @ 661:15dbe0ccda95

Prevent exceptions when viewing downloads in the admin when the file doesn't exist on the filesystem. This is usually seen in development but can also happen in production if the file is missing.
author Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com>
date Tue, 14 May 2013 21:02:47 -0500
parents ee87ea74d46b
children 89b240fe9297
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"""
This module contains views for working with post attachments.
"""
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.http import HttpResponseForbidden
from django.http import HttpResponseBadRequest
from django.http import HttpResponseNotFound
import django.utils.simplejson as json

from forums.models import Post


def fetch_attachments(request):
    """
    This view is the target of an AJAX GET request to retrieve the
    attachment embed data for a given forum post.

    """
    if not request.user.is_authenticated():
        return HttpResponseForbidden('Please login or register.')

    post_id = request.GET.get('pid')
    if post_id is None:
        return HttpResponseBadRequest('Missing post ID.')

    try:
        post = Post.objects.get(pk=post_id)
    except Post.DoesNotExist:
        return HttpResponseNotFound("That post doesn't exist.")

    embeds = post.attachments.all().select_related('embed')
    data = [{'id': embed.id, 'html': embed.html} for embed in embeds]

    return HttpResponse(json.dumps(data), content_type='application/json')