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1 #!/usr/bin/env python
2 # $Id: Filters.py,v 1.32 2007/03/29 19:31:15 tavis_rudd Exp $
3 """Filters for the #filter directive; output filters Cheetah's $placeholders .
5 Meta-Data
6 ================================================================================
7 Author: Tavis Rudd <tavis@damnsimple.com>
8 Version: $Revision: 1.32 $
9 Start Date: 2001/08/01
10 Last Revision Date: $Date: 2007/03/29 19:31:15 $
11 """
12 __author__ = "Tavis Rudd <tavis@damnsimple.com>"
13 __revision__ = "$Revision: 1.32 $"[11:-2]
15 # Additional entities WebSafe knows how to transform. No need to include
16 # '<', '>' or '&' since those will have been done already.
17 webSafeEntities = {' ': '&nbsp;', '"': '&quot;'}
19 class Error(Exception):
20 pass
22 ##################################################
23 ## BASE CLASS
25 class Filter(object):
26 """A baseclass for the Cheetah Filters."""
28 def __init__(self, template=None):
29 """Setup a reference to the template that is using the filter instance.
30 This reference isn't used by any of the standard filters, but is
31 available to Filter subclasses, should they need it.
33 Subclasses should call this method.
34 """
35 self.template = template
37 def filter(self, val,
38 #encoding='utf8',
39 encoding=None,
40 str=str,
41 **kw):
42 """Pass Unicode strings through unmolested, unless an encoding is specified.
43 """
44 if isinstance(val, unicode):
45 if encoding:
46 filtered = val.encode(encoding)
47 else:
48 filtered = val
49 elif val is None:
50 filtered = ''
51 else:
52 filtered = str(val)
53 return filtered
55 RawOrEncodedUnicode = Filter
57 ##################################################
58 ## ENHANCED FILTERS
60 class EncodeUnicode(Filter):
61 def filter(self, val,
62 encoding='utf8',
63 str=str,
64 **kw):
65 """Encode Unicode strings, by default in UTF-8.
67 >>> import Cheetah.Template
68 >>> t = Cheetah.Template.Template('''
69 ... $myvar
70 ... ${myvar, encoding='utf16'}
71 ... ''', searchList=[{'myvar': u'Asni\xe8res'}],
72 ... filter='EncodeUnicode')
73 >>> print t
74 """
75 if isinstance(val, unicode):
76 filtered = val.encode(encoding)
77 elif val is None:
78 filtered = ''
79 else:
80 filtered = str(val)
81 return filtered
83 class MaxLen(Filter):
84 def filter(self, val, **kw):
85 """Replace None with '' and cut off at maxlen."""
87 output = super(MaxLen, self).filter(val, **kw)
88 if kw.has_key('maxlen') and len(output) > kw['maxlen']:
89 return output[:kw['maxlen']]
90 return output
92 class WebSafe(Filter):
93 """Escape HTML entities in $placeholders.
94 """
95 def filter(self, val, **kw):
96 s = super(WebSafe, self).filter(val, **kw)
97 # These substitutions are copied from cgi.escape().
98 s = s.replace("&", "&amp;") # Must be done first!
99 s = s.replace("<", "&lt;")
100 s = s.replace(">", "&gt;")
101 # Process the additional transformations if any.
102 if kw.has_key('also'):
103 also = kw['also']
104 entities = webSafeEntities # Global variable.
105 for k in also:
106 if entities.has_key(k):
107 v = entities[k]
108 else:
109 v = "&#%s;" % ord(k)
110 s = s.replace(k, v)
111 # Return the puppy.
112 return s
115 class Strip(Filter):
116 """Strip leading/trailing whitespace but preserve newlines.
118 This filter goes through the value line by line, removing leading and
119 trailing whitespace on each line. It does not strip newlines, so every
120 input line corresponds to one output line, with its trailing newline intact.
122 We do not use val.split('\n') because that would squeeze out consecutive
123 blank lines. Instead, we search for each newline individually. This
124 makes us unable to use the fast C .split method, but it makes the filter
125 much more widely useful.
127 This filter is intended to be usable both with the #filter directive and
128 with the proposed #sed directive (which has not been ratified yet.)
130 def filter(self, val, **kw):
131 s = super(Strip, self).filter(val, **kw)
132 result = []
133 start = 0 # The current line will be s[start:end].
134 while 1: # Loop through each line.
135 end = s.find('\n', start) # Find next newline.
136 if end == -1: # If no more newlines.
137 break
138 chunk = s[start:end].strip()
139 result.append(chunk)
140 result.append('\n')
141 start = end + 1
142 # Write the unfinished portion after the last newline, if any.
143 chunk = s[start:].strip()
144 result.append(chunk)
145 return "".join(result)
147 class StripSqueeze(Filter):
148 """Canonicalizes every chunk of whitespace to a single space.
150 Strips leading/trailing whitespace. Removes all newlines, so multi-line
151 input is joined into one ling line with NO trailing newline.
153 def filter(self, val, **kw):
154 s = super(StripSqueeze, self).filter(val, **kw)
155 s = s.split()
156 return " ".join(s)
158 ##################################################
159 ## MAIN ROUTINE -- testing
161 def test():
162 s1 = "abc <=> &"
163 s2 = " asdf \n\t 1 2 3\n"
164 print "WebSafe INPUT:", `s1`
165 print " WebSafe:", `WebSafe().filter(s1)`
167 print
168 print " Strip INPUT:", `s2`
169 print " Strip:", `Strip().filter(s2)`
170 print "StripSqueeze:", `StripSqueeze().filter(s2)`
172 print "Unicode:", `EncodeUnicode().filter(u'aoeu12345\u1234')`
174 if __name__ == "__main__": test()
176 # vim: shiftwidth=4 tabstop=4 expandtab