view gpp/forums/feeds.py @ 505:a5d11471d031

Refactor the logic in the rate limiter decorator. Check to see if the request was ajax, as the ajax view always returns 200. Have to decode the JSON response to see if an error occurred or not.
author Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com>
date Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:13:38 +0000
parents 63e4682d6482
children 248dd8dd67f8
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"""This file contains the feed class for the forums application."""

from django.contrib.syndication.views import Feed
from django.core.exceptions import ObjectDoesNotExist
from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404

from forums.models import Forum, Topic, Post
from core.functions import copyright_str


class ForumsFeed(Feed):
    """The Feed class for a specific forum"""

    ttl = '60'
    author_name = 'Brian Neal'
    author_email = 'admin@surfguitar101.com'

    def get_object(self, request, forum_slug):
        # only return public forums
        if forum_slug:
            forum = get_object_or_404(Forum, slug=forum_slug)
            if forum.id not in Forum.objects.public_forum_ids():
                raise ObjectDoesNotExist
            return forum

        else:
            # return None to indicate we want a combined feed
            return None

    def title(self, obj):
        if obj is None:
            forum_name = 'Combined'
        else:
            forum_name = obj.name

        return 'SurfGuitar101.com %s Forum Feed' % forum_name

    def link(self, obj):
        if obj is None:
            bits = ''
        else:
            bits = obj.slug + '/'

        return '/feeds/forums/' + bits

    def description(self, obj):
        if obj is None:
            return "User posts to SurfGuitar101.com forums."
        return obj.description

    def feed_copyright(self):
        return copyright_str()

    def items(self, obj):
        if obj is None:
            # return a combined feed of public forum threads

            # This was tricky to do without suffering a large performance
            # impact. Because the number of forums is small, MySQL did not
            # try to use an index and ended up searching all the topics for
            # candidate posts. We work around this by first getting a small list
            # of candidate topics, and then searching them. This is more
            # queries but a *lot* more time efficient.

            forum_ids = Forum.objects.public_forum_ids()
            topic_ids = list(Topic.objects.filter(forum__in=forum_ids).order_by(
                    '-update_date').values_list('id', flat=True)[:30])
            items = Post.objects.filter(topic__in=topic_ids)

        else:
            items = Post.objects.filter(topic__forum=obj)

        return items.order_by('-creation_date').select_related('topic', 'user',
                'topic__forum')[:30]

    def item_title(self, item):
        return item.topic.name

    def item_description(self, item):
        return item.html

    def item_author_name(self, item):
        return item.user.username

    def item_pubdate(self, item):
       return item.creation_date

    def item_categories(self, item):
       return (item.topic.forum.name, )