def load():
"""
Load a series of markdown and yaml files from content folders. YAML is for
blogpost metadata and markdown files are blogpost content.
"""
# Clearout the old db
# FIXME: this should check itself before it deletes things.
old_entries = Entry.objects.all()
old_entries.delete()
# Recreate the content of the db
years = ['02011'] # only one year of content for now, append later
# TODO: use this in a blog-wide yaml config file, can generate 1996-2010(c)
for year in years:
folder = './content/blog/' + year + '/'
files = set([os.path.splitext(f)[0] for f in os.listdir(folder)])
for file in files:
meta_file = open(folder + file + '.yaml', 'r')
metadata = yaml.load(meta_file)
meta_file.close()
post_file = open(folder + file + '.md', 'r')
post = post_file.read()
post_file.close()
e = Entry()
# TODO: implement django-tagging here
# Metadata
e.title = metadata['title']
e.slug = slugify(metadata['title'])
e.pub_date = metadata['pub_date']
e.published = metadata['published']
# Post
e.body = post
e.snip = post[:139] # 140 characters of fun
e.save()
pass