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Wiki integration. Requests don't always have sessions. In particular this occurs when a request is made without a trailing slash. The Common middleware redirects when this happens, and the middleware process_request() processing stops before a session can get added. So just set an attribute on the request object for each operation. This seemed weird to me at first, but there are plenty of examples of this in the Django code base already.
author Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com>
date Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:50:06 -0600
parents ee87ea74d46b
children c6c3ba5cf6eb
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"""
Common utility/helper code for the news app.

"""
from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType

from comments.models import Comment
from tagging.models import TaggedItem
from news.models import Story


def attach_extra_attrs(stories):
    """
    For each story in the input stories list, attach 2 new attributes:
    tag_list and comment_count. The tags and comment count info is pulled from
    the database in bulk. This saves database queries when lots of news
    stories are displayed at once. For best results, use ".defer('tags')"
    when retrieve the stories from the database.

    """
    stories_dict = dict((story.id, story) for story in stories)
    story_ids = stories_dict.keys()

    # Get all the tags out in one query
    ct = ContentType.objects.get_for_model(Story)
    tagged_items = TaggedItem.objects.filter(content_type=ct,
            object_id__in=story_ids).select_related('tag')

    for story in stories_dict.values():
        story.tag_list = []
        story.comment_count = 0

    # attach tags
    for item in tagged_items:
        stories_dict[item.object_id].tag_list.append(item.tag.name)

    # Now get all the comment counts out in one fell swoop

    story_ids = Comment.objects.filter(content_type=ct,
            object_id__in=story_ids).values_list('object_id', flat=True)

    # compute comment_count
    for story_id in story_ids:
        stories_dict[story_id].comment_count += 1