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Haystack tweaks for Django 1.7.7. I had to upgrade to Haystack 2.3.1 to get it to work with Django 1.7.7. I also had to update the Xapian backend. But I ran into problems. On my laptop anyway (Ubuntu 14.0.4), xapian gets mad when search terms are greater than 245 chars (or something) when indexing. So I created a custom field that would simply omit terms greater than 64 chars and used this field everywhere I previously used a CharField. Secondly, the custom search form was broken now. Something changed in the Xapian backend and exact searches stopped working. Fortunately the auto_query (which I was using originally and broke during an upgrade) started working again. So I cut the search form back over to doing an auto_query. I kept the form the same (3 fields) because I didn't want to change the form and I think it's better that way.
author Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com>
date Wed, 13 May 2015 20:25:07 -0500
parents 89b240fe9297
children 16e190fa6ef8
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"""
Views for the contests application.

"""
import json

from django.http import (HttpResponse, HttpResponseForbidden,
        HttpResponseBadRequest)
from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404
from django.views.decorators.http import require_POST

from contests.models import Contest


@require_POST
def enter(request):
    """
    This view is an AJAX view that is used to enter or withdraw a user from a
    given contest. This function toggles the user's entered state in the
    contest.

    """
    if not request.user.is_authenticated():
        return HttpResponseForbidden("Please login first")

    contest_id = request.POST.get('contest_id')
    if not contest_id:
        return HttpResponseBadRequest("Missing contest_id")

    contest = get_object_or_404(Contest, pk=contest_id)
    if not contest.can_enter():
        return HttpResponseForbidden("Contest is over")

    # Toggle the user's state in the contest

    result = {}
    if request.user in contest.contestants.all():
        contest.contestants.remove(request.user)
        result['entered'] = False
        result['msg'] = 'You have been withdrawn from this contest.'
    else:
        contest.contestants.add(request.user)
        result['entered'] = True
        result['msg'] = 'You have been entered into this contest!'

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