~azzar1/unity/add-show-desktop-key

# IVLE - Informatics Virtual Learning Environment

# Copyright (C) 2007-2009 The University of Melbourne

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# Author: Nick Chadwick, Will Grant

import os

import inspect

import genshi

class BaseOverlay(object):

    """Abstract base class for all overlays."""

    plugin_scripts = {}

    plugin_styles = {}

    plugin_scripts_init = []

    def __init__(self, req):

        self.req = req

    def render(self, req):

        raise NotImplementedError()

class XHTMLOverlay(BaseOverlay):

    """Abstract base class for XHTML overlays.

    An overlay which provides a base class for overlays which need to return 

    XHTML. It is expected that apps which use this overlay will be written using

    Genshi templates.

    """

    template = 'template.html'

    def render(self, req):

        """Renders an XML stream from the template for this overlay."""

        ctx = genshi.template.Context()

        # This is where the sub-class is actually called

        self.populate(req, ctx)

        # Renders out the template.

        template_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(

                        inspect.getmodule(self).__file__), self.template)

        loader = genshi.template.TemplateLoader(".", auto_reload=True)

        tmpl = loader.load(template_path)

        return tmpl.generate(ctx)

    def populate(self, req, ctx):

        raise NotImplementedError()