Re: setting template variables from plugins/ unkludging code/

scratch that, host is back up. You can find the plugin attached.

On 7/7/07, William Cybriwsky <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> oh, I've been talking with will and have actually developed the plugin to
> the point where it is
> a) a proper plugin
> b) gets the uname/pass from config.py
> c) provides the last 'tweet', its date, and its time as vars.
> d) caches for 60 seconds
>
> but my site just went down around an hour ago. thanks for the
> help+enthusiasm, this would be my first public code (ever).
>
> On 7/7/07, Ryan Barrett <pyblosxom-6sb6M7qyT/[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > cool! it'd be great to have a twitter plugin for pyblosxom.
> >
> > On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, William Cybriwsky wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, I'm a new user of pyblosxom, and I wanted to know how to set
> > template
> > > variables from a plugin. I currently have the chunk of python code:
> >
> > if you want the variables to be available in existing templates, you can
> > set
> > them on the request data. for example:
> >
> >    def cb_prepare(args):
> >      data = args['request'].getData()
> >      data['twitterstatus'] = ...
> >
> > if you're rendering an entry yourself, you can set it directly on the
> > entry.
> > for example:
> >
> >    entry = args['entry']  # or entry = FileEntry(request) or ...
> >    entry['twitterstatus'] = ...
> >
> > see http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/1.3.1/api/ .
> >
> >
> > > P.S. : if I wanted to write some simple cache code, how would I just
> > do a
> > > check for a file age of 60 seconds?
> >
> > if i understand right, you only want to check your twitter status every
> > 60
> > seconds, so on each request, you want to check if tmptwit.xml is over 60
> > seconds old? try os.path.getmtime():
> >
> > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.path.html#l2h-2168
> >
> > -Ryan
> >
> > --
> > http://snarfed.org/
> >
>
>

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"""
twitget.py: twitter interaction for pyblosxom
	Copyright 2007 William Cybriwsky
"""
__author__      = "William Cybriwsky - jadeshade at gmail dot com"
__version__     = "0.00"
__url__         = "http://cornerguy.adakist.com"
__description__ = "Retrieve information from the twitter webservice"
__depends__ = ["curl"]

import os, time
from xml.dom import minidom

def verify_installation(request):
	sofar = 1
	config = request.getConfiguration()
	if not config.has_key("twitter_username"):
		print ""
		print "you need to specify a username in config.py!"
		print "example: py[\"twitter_username\"] = \"joe\""
		sofar = 0
	if not config.has_key("twitter_password"):
		print ""
		print "you need to specify a password in config.py!"
		print "example: py[\"twitter_password\"] = \"supahsekret\""
		print ""
		sofar = 0
	return sofar

def updatexml(username,password):
	getxml="curl -u %s:%s http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?count=1 > tmptwit.xml" % (username,password)
	os.system(getxml)

def maketimestring(mainxml,type):
	timestring = mainxml.childNodes[1].childNodes[0].data
	timelist = timestring.split(" ")
	if type == 0:
		del timelist[3:6]
		timestring = " ".join(timelist)
	if type == 1:
		timestring = timelist.pop(3)
	return timestring

def currentstatus(mainxml):
	return mainxml.childNodes[5].childNodes[0].data

def cb_prepare(incoming):
	request = incoming["request"]
	vars = request.getData()
	config = request.getConfiguration()
	(username,password) = (config["twitter_username"],config["twitter_password"])
	if not (os.path.exists("tmptwit.xml") and os.stat("tmptwit.xml").st_mtime + 60 < time.time()):
		updatexml(username,password)
	xmlResponse=minidom.parse("tmptwit.xml")
	mainxml=xmlResponse.childNodes[0].childNodes[1]
	vars["twitterdate"] = maketimestring(mainxml,0)
	vars["twittertime"] = maketimestring(mainxml,1)
	vars["twitterstatus"] = currentstatus(mainxml)