"""Route requests for articles according to shoofle's rules. This is a simple module which is basically entirely here to provide access, in a sensible location, to the `bloop` object. It's a blueprint which describes how to route requests for articles on my website (possibly located at http://shoofle.net, possibly not located there). Most of the interesting stuff is in `render_article`; Go team!""" import os from flask import Blueprint, render_template, abort folder = "articles" article_base_template = os.path.join(folder, "article.template.html") bloop = Blueprint("articles", __name__, template_folder="") @bloop.route("/") def main_page(): """Renders the list of articles/projects.""" return render_template("project_list.html") @bloop.route("/raw//") def render_file(page_name): """Does nothing. Not really sure why I have this.""" file_name = os.path.join(folder, page_name.replace("-", "_")) @bloop.route("//") def render_article(page_name): """Renders a requested article! This should always be @routed last, because it catches a wide variety of requests. As a result, other things need to be @routed first, because they might never get called if this catches them first.""" # Arguably, the various options for how to render (templates, articles, flat html) could be stuck into various # subdirectories. Ultimately I don't want to do this because I want this to be lightweight - this __init__.py file # can be chucked into any folder and start showing pages correctly. But whatever! # In the examples, let's think about a request for "example.com/some-article". # First, we convert the important part of the requested page into a filename # "example.com/Some-Article/" => folder="Some-Article" => file_name = "articles/some_article" file_name = os.path.join(folder, page_name.replace("-", "_").lower()) # Here's the priority list for file rendering! if os.path.isfile(file_name + ".template.html"): # If the file "articles/some_article.template.html" exists, then there's a specific {template} written # for this path. Specific page {templates} take priority. return render_template(file_name + ".template.html") if os.path.isfile(file_name + ".article.html"): # If "articles/some_article.article.html" exists but there's no template, then we should render that # {article fragment}, but using the {article base template}. In the future, this should possibly also # extract the title from the {article fragment} and feed it into the {article base template} as well. return render_template(article_base_template, target=file_name + ".article.html") if os.path.isfile(file_name + ".html"): # If we haven't found any results yet, check to see if "articles/some_article.html" exists. If it does, # just display it plain. This also provides a clean way to access the raw form of files like # "articles/some_article.template.html" - just make a request for "example.com/some-article.template/" # and it will be caught by this rule and rendered. return render_template(file_name + ".html") if os.path.isfile(file_name): # If it didn't match any other rules, then just render the file that has precisely the requested name. return render_template(file_name); # I *believe* there's one instance that can't be accessed by this kind of routing in any way: # If the files "articles/some_article" and "articles/some_article.html" both exist, then no request will # convince this blueprint to return the former. However, as sacrifices go, I don't think it's too bad, and # that should be the only case when this happens. # If we didn't find any files, throw up a 404. abort(404) """Th-th-th-that's all, folks!"""