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# IVLE - Informatics Virtual Learning Environment
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# Copyright (C) 2007-2009 The University of Melbourne
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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# Author: Matt Giuca, Will Grant
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class BaseView(object):
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Abstract base class for all view objects.
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def __init__(self, req, **kwargs):
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def render(self, req):
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class RESTView(BaseView):
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A view which provides a RESTful interface. The content type is
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unspecified (see JSONRESTView for a specific content type).
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content_type = "application/octet-stream"
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def __init__(self, req, *args, **kwargs):
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def render(self, req):
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if req.method == 'GET':
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outstr = self.GET(req)
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if req.method == 'PUT':
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outstr = self.PATCH(req, req.read())
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req.content_type = self.content_type
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class JSONRESTView(RESTView):
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A special case of RESTView which deals entirely in JSON.
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content_type = "application/json"
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def render(self, req):
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if req.method == 'GET':
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outjson = self.GET(req)
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if req.method == 'PUT':
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outjson = self.PATCH(req, cjson.decode(req.read()))
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req.content_type = self.content_type
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req.write(cjson.encode(outjson))