To start, I'm very new to python, let alone Django and Piston.
Anyway, I've created a new BaseHandler class "class BaseApiHandler(BaseHandler)" so that I can extend some of
the stff that BaseHandler does. This has been working fine until I added a new filter that could limit results to
the first or last result. Now I can refresh
the api page over and over and sometimes it will limit
the result even if I don't include /limit/whatever in my URL... I've added some debug info into my return value to see what is happening, and that's when it gets more weird.
this return value will make more sense after you see
the code, but here they are
for reference:
When
the results are correct:
"statusmsg": "2 hours_detail found with query: {'empid':'22','datestamp':'2009-03-02',}",
when
the results are incorrect (once you read
the code you'll notice two things wrong. First, it doesn't have 'limit':'None', secondly it shouldn't even get this far to begin with.
"statusmsg": "1 hours_detail found with query: {'empid':'22','datestamp':'2009-03-02',with limit[0,1](limit,None),}",
It may be important to note that I'm
the only person with access to
the server running this right now, so even if it was a cache issue, it doesn't make sense that I can just refresh and get different results by hitting F5 while viewing:
http://localhost/api/hours_detail/datestamp/2009-03-02/empid/22
Here's
the code broken into urls.py and handlers.py so that you can see what i'm doing:
URLS.PY
urlpatterns = patterns('',
#hours_detail/id/{id}/empid/{empid}/projid/{projid}/datestamp/{datestamp}/daterange/{fromdate}to{todate}/limit/{first|last}/exact
#empid is required
# id, empid, projid, datestamp, daterange can be in any order
url(r'^api/hours_detail/(?:' + \
r'(?:[/]?id/(?P<id>\d+))?' + \
r'(?:[/]?empid/(?P<empid>\d+))?' + \
r'(?:[/]?projid/(?P<projid>\d+))?' + \
r'(?:[/]?datestamp/(?P<datestamp>\d{4,}[-/\.]\d{2,}[-/\.]\d{2,}))?' + \
r'(?:[/]?daterange/(?P<daterange>(?:\d{4,}[-/\.]\d{2,}[-/\.]\d{2,})(?:to|/-)(?:\d{4,}[-/\.]\d{2,}[-/\.]\d{2,})))?' + \
r')+' + \
r'(?:/limit/(?P<limit>(?:first|last)))?' + \
r'(?:/(?P<exact>exact))?$', hours_detail_resource),
HANDLERS.PY
# inherit from BaseHandler to add
the extra functionality i need to process
the possibly null URL params
class BaseApiHandler(BaseHandler):
# keep track of
the handler so
the data is represented back to me correctly
post_name = 'base'
# THIS IS
THE LIST IN QUESTION - SOMETIMES IT IS GETTING SET TO [0,1] MYSTERIOUSLY
# this gets set to a list when
the results are to be limited
limit = None
def has_limit(self):
return (isinstance(self.limit, list) and len(self.limit) == 2)
def process_kwarg_read(self, key, value, d_post, b_exact):
"""
this should be overridden in
the derived classes to process kwargs
"""
pass
# override 'read' so we can better handle our api's searching capabilities
def read(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
d_post = {'status':0,'statusmsg':'Nothing Happened'}
try:
# setup
the named response object
# select all employees then filter - querysets are lazy in django
#
the actual query is only done once data is needed, so this may
# seem like some memory hog slow beast, but it's actually not.
d_post[self.post_name] = self.queryset(request)
# this is a string that holds debug information... it's
the string I mentioned before pasting this code
s_query = ''
b_exact = False
if 'exact' in kwargs and kwargs['exact'] <> None:
b_exact = True
s_query = '\'exact\':True,'
for key,value in kwargs.iteritems():
#
the regex url possibilities will push None into
the kwargs dictionary
# if not specified, so just continue looping through if that's
the case
if value == None or key == 'exact':
continue
# write to
the s_query string so we have a nice error message
s_query = '%s\'%s\':\'%s\',' % (s_query, key, value)
# now process this key/value kwarg
self.process_kwarg_read(key=key, value=value, d_post=d_post, b_exact=b_exact)
# end of
the kwargs
for loop
else:
if self.has_limit():
# THIS SEEMS TO GET HIT SOMETIMES IF YOU CONSTANTLY REFRESH
THE API PAGE, EVEN THOUGH
#
THE LINE IN
THE FOR LOOP WHICH UPDATES s_query DOESN'T GET HIS AND THUS self.process_kwarg_read ALSO
# DOESN'T GET HIT SO NEITHER DOES limit = [0,1]
s_query = '%swith limit[%s,%s](limit,%s),' % (s_query, self.limit[0], self.limit[1], kwargs['limit'])
d_post[self.post_name] = d_post[self.post_name][self.limit[0]:self.limit[1]]
if d_post[self.post_name].count() == 0:
d_post['status'] = 0
d_post['statusmsg'] = '%s not found with query: {%s}' % (self.post_name, s_query)
else:
d_post['status'] = 1
d_post['statusmsg'] = '%s %s found with query: {%s}' % (d_post[self.post_name].count(), self.post_name, s_query)
except:
e = sys.exc_info()[1]
d_post['status'] = 0
d_post['statusmsg'] = 'error: %s' % e
d_post[self.post_name] = []
return d_post
class HoursDetailHandler(BaseApiHandler):
#allowed_methods = ('GET',)
model = HoursDetail
exclude = ()
post_name = 'hours_detail'
def process_kwarg_read(self, key, value, d_post, b_exact):
if ...
# I have several if/elif statements here that check
for other things...
# 'self.limit =' only shows up in
the following elif:
elif key == 'limit':
order_by = 'clock_time'
if value == 'last':
order_by = '-clock_time'
d_post[self.post_name] = d_post[self.post_name].order_by(order_by)
# TO GET HERE,
THE ONLY PLACE IN CODE WHERE self.limit IS SET, YOU MUST HAVE GONE THROUGH
#
THE value == None CHECK????
self.limit = [0, 1]
else:
raise NameError
def read(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
# empid is required, so make sure it exists before running BaseApiHandler's read method
if not('empid' in kwargs and kwargs['empid'] <> None and kwargs['empid'] >= 0):
return {'status':0,'statusmsg':'empid cannot be empty'}
else:
return BaseApiHandler.read(self, request, *args, **kwargs)
Does anyone have a clue how else self.limit might be getting set to [0, 1] ? Am I misunderstanding kwargs or loops or anything in Python?
