edx-platform/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/template_module.py

from xmodule.x_module import XModule
from xmodule.raw_module import RawDescriptor
from lxml import etree
from mako.template import Template
from xmodule.modulestore.django import modulestore
import logging


class CustomTagModule(XModule):
    """
    This module supports tags of the form
    <customtag option="val" option2="val2" impl="tagname"/>

    In this case, $tagname should refer to a file in data/custom_tags, which contains
    a mako template that uses ${option} and ${option2} for the content.

    For instance:

    data/mycourse/custom_tags/book::
        More information given in <a href="/book/${page}">the text</a>

    course.xml::
        ...
        <customtag page="234" impl="book"/>
        ...

    Renders to::
        More information given in <a href="/book/234">the text</a>
    """

    def get_html(self):
        return self.descriptor.rendered_html


class CustomTagDescriptor(RawDescriptor):
    """ Descriptor for custom tags.  Loads the template when created."""
    module_class = CustomTagModule
    template_dir_name = 'customtag'

    def render_template(self, system, xml_data):
        '''Render the template, given the definition xml_data'''
        xmltree = etree.fromstring(xml_data)
        if 'impl' in xmltree.attrib:
            template_name = xmltree.attrib['impl']
        else:
            # VS[compat]  backwards compatibility with old nested customtag structure
            child_impl = xmltree.find('impl')
            if child_impl is not None:
                template_name = child_impl.text
            else:
                # TODO (vshnayder): better exception type
                raise Exception("Could not find impl attribute in customtag {0}"
                                .format(location))

        params = dict(xmltree.items())

        # cdodge: look up the template as a module
        template_loc = self.location._replace(category='custom_tag_template', name=template_name)

        template_module = modulestore().get_instance(system.course_id, template_loc)
        template_module_data = template_module.data
        template = Template(template_module_data)
        return template.render(**params)


    @property
    def rendered_html(self):
        return self.render_template(self.system, self.data)

    def export_to_file(self):
        """
        Custom tags are special: since they're already pointers, we don't want
        to export them in a file with yet another layer of indirection.
        """
        return False