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# IVLE - Informatics Virtual Learning Environment

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

#

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

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# Module: common.studpath

# Author: Matt Giuca

# Date:   14/12/2007

# Provides functions for translating URLs into physical locations in the

# student directories in the local file system.

import os

import conf

from common import util

def url_to_local(urlpath):

    """Given a URL path (part of a URL query string, see below), returns a

    tuple of

        * the username of the student whose directory is being browsed

        * the absolute path in the file system where that file will be

            found within the student directories.

    urlpath: Part of the URL, but only the part *after* the application. For

    instance, given the URL "/ivle/browse/joe/home/mydir/myfile", urlpath will

    be just "joe/home/mydir/myfile". The expected result is something like

    ("joe", "/home/informatics/jails/joe/home/svn/mydir/myfile").

    Note that the actual location is not guaranteed by this interface (this

    function serves as a single point of control as to how URLs map onto

    student directories).

    Returns (None, None) if the path is empty.

    See also: conf.student_dir

    """

    # Note: User can be a group name. There is absolutely no difference in our

    # current directory scheme.

    (user, subpath) = util.split_path(urlpath)

    if user is None: return (None, None)

    # Join the user onto 'home' then the full path specified.

    # This results in the user's name being repeated twice, which is in

    # accordance with our directory scheme.

    # (The first time is the name of the jail, the second is the user's home

    # directory within the jail).

    path = os.path.join(conf.student_dir, user, 'home', urlpath)

    return (user, path)