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# IVLE

# Copyright (C) 2007-2008 The University of Melbourne

#

# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

# (at your option) any later version.

#

# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

# GNU General Public License for more details.

#

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA

# Module: apps

# Author: Matt Giuca

# Date: 12/12/2007

# Loads IVLE applications.

# All sub-packages in this package are apps.

def call_app(appname, req):

    """Calls an application with the given name. Passes req to the app's

    handler."""

    try:

        # level=-1 to make it look in the right directory

        app_module = __import__(appname, globals(), locals(), [], -1)

    except ImportError, msg:

        # Any problems meant it's a server error, because conf/apps.py said

        # this app would be here.

        req.throw_error(req.HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR,

            "Could not load the %s application: %s" % (repr(appname), str(msg)))

    app_module.handle(req)