def post(self):
user = users.get_current_user()
if not user:
self.error(401)
return
# Load the json from the request
try:
new_project = json.loads(self.request.body)
# If we get a malformed json send 400 - Bad Request and stop execution
except ValueError:
self.error(400)
return
# Try to parse the request json to useful project data
# Stop execution and server error 400 if anything goes wrong
try:
# First check that we didn't get any empty values
if new_project['title'] is None:
raise ValueError('No title')
if new_project['description'] is None:
raise ValueError('No description')
if new_project['location'] is None:
raise ValueError('No location')
if new_project['requested_amount'] is None:
raise ValueError('No requested amount')
if new_project['category'] is None:
raise ValueError('No category')
if new_project['due_date'] is None:
raise ValueError('No due date')
if new_project['tags'] is None:
raise ValueError('No tags')
# Try to construct a Project object from the given data
project = Anna_Project()
project.user_id = user.user_id()
project.title = new_project['title']
project.description = new_project['description']
project.category = new_project['category']
project.tags = new_project['tags']
project.location = new_project['location']
project.requested_amount = int(new_project['requested_amount'])
# DateTime format ex. 24122016 (24th of January, 2016), %d%m%Y
project.due_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(new_project['due_date'], "%d%m%Y")
# Request data was somehow wrong (Datetime didnt match the specified format or something similar)
except ValueError:
self.error(400)
return
# Something else broke in trying to parse the new project data from the request
except Exception, e:
self.error(400)
return
