# look at how that turned out: print( "Empty HumanName?:" ) print( Person.HumanName_to_str( manual ) ) # override parsed values with correct name parts manual.first = "Van" manual.last = "Conway" # look at how that turned out: print( "after manual configuration:" ) print( Person.HumanName_to_str( manual ) ) # now, try some lookups # let the lookup parse the name. test1 = Person.look_up_person_from_name( name ) print( "test1 = " + str( test1 ) ) # pass in manually configured HumanName test2 = Person.look_up_person_from_name( name, manual ) print( "test2 = " + str( test2 ) ) # try exact match test3 = Person.look_up_person_from_name( name, manual, do_strict_match_IN = True ) print( "test3 (strict) = " + str( test3 ) ) # how to best deal with two word names? name_part_list = name.split() name_part_count = len( name_part_list ) print( "Name list: " + str( name_part_list ) + "; len: " + str( name_part_count ) )
def lookup_person_by_name( cls, request_inputs_IN, lookup_type_IN = None, person_qs_IN = None, *args, **kwargs ):
'''
Accepts request inputs we'd expect to contain the fields defined for
this form and a lookup type that is one of those in the form class
PersonLookupTypeForm defined above. Uses this information to lookup
a person and returns the QuerySet that contains the results of the
lookup. If error, returns None.
'''
# return reference
qs_OUT = None
# declare variables
me = "lookup_person_by_name"
my_logger_name = "sourcenet.forms.PersonLookupByNameForm"
debug_message = ""
request_inputs = None
lookup_type = ""
person_qs = None
my_person_details = None
human_name = None
name_string = None
do_strict_match = False
do_partial_match = False
# first, make sure we have request inputs.
if ( request_inputs_IN is not None ):
# store off the inputs.
request_inputs = request_inputs_IN
# and the lookup type.
lookup_type = lookup_type_IN
debug_message = "lookup_type = " + str( lookup_type )
LoggingHelper.output_debug( debug_message, method_IN = me, logger_name_IN = my_logger_name )
# got a person qs?
if ( person_qs_IN is not None ):
person_qs = person_qs_IN
#-- END check to see if person_qs --#
# retrieve Person records specified by the input parameters,
# ordered by Last Name, then First Name. Then, create HTML
# output of list of articles. For each, output (to start):
# - Person string
# populate PersonDetails from request_inputs:
my_person_details = PersonDetails.get_instance( request_inputs )
# get HumanName instance...
human_name = my_person_details.to_HumanName()
name_string = str( human_name )
# do lookup based on lookup_type
if ( lookup_type == PersonLookupTypeForm.PERSON_LOOKUP_TYPE_GENERAL_QUERY ):
debug_message = "performing general query"
LoggingHelper.output_debug( debug_message, method_IN = me, logger_name_IN = my_logger_name )
# not strict
do_strict_match = False
do_partial_match = True
person_qs = Person.look_up_person_from_name( name_IN = name_string,
parsed_name_IN = human_name,
do_strict_match_IN = do_strict_match,
do_partial_match_IN = do_partial_match,
qs_IN = person_qs )
elif ( lookup_type == PersonLookupTypeForm.PERSON_LOOKUP_TYPE_EXACT_QUERY ):
debug_message = "performing exact query"
LoggingHelper.output_debug( debug_message, method_IN = me, logger_name_IN = my_logger_name )
# strict
do_strict_match = True
do_partial_match = False
person_qs = Person.look_up_person_from_name( name_IN = name_string,
parsed_name_IN = human_name,
do_strict_match_IN = do_strict_match,
do_partial_match_IN = do_partial_match,
qs_IN = person_qs )
else:
debug_message = "no lookup_type, so doing general query"
LoggingHelper.output_debug( debug_message, method_IN = me, logger_name_IN = my_logger_name )
# default to not strict
do_strict_match = False
do_partial_match = True
person_qs = Person.look_up_person_from_name( name_IN = name_string,
parsed_name_IN = human_name,
do_strict_match_IN = do_strict_match,
do_partial_match_IN = do_partial_match,
qs_IN = person_qs )
#-- END decide how to lookup based on lookup_type --#
else:
debug_message = "no request_inputs_IN, so no query - returning None."
LoggingHelper.output_debug( debug_message, method_IN = me, logger_name_IN = my_logger_name )
person_qs = None
#-- END check to see if request_inputs_IN --#
# return person_qs
qs_OUT = person_qs
return qs_OUT