view gpp/forums/views/attachments.py @ 393:9af6bd45c1f8

Another try at #191 after getting some good advice in a django-users thread.
author Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com>
date Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:15:34 +0000
parents 72fd300685d5
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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')