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edx-platform/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/template_module.py
2013-06-28 14:19:10 -04:00

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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
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(self.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