def add_slug_to_article_if_not_exists(sender, instance, *args, **kwargs):
MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH = 255
if instance and not instance.slug:
slug = slugify(instance.title)
unique = generate_random_string()
if len(slug) > MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH:
slug = slug[:MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH]
while len(slug + '-' + unique) > MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH:
parts = slug.split('-')
if len(parts) is 1:
slug = slug[:MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH - len(unique) - 1]
else:
slug = '-'.join(parts[:-1])
instance.slug = slug + '-' + unique
def add_slug_to_article_if_not_exists(sender, instance, *args, **kwargs):
MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH = 255
if instance and not instance.slug:
slug = slugify(instance.title)
unique = generate_random_string()
if len(slug) > MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH:
slug = slug[:MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH]
while len(slug + '-' + unique) > MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH:
parts = slug.split('-')
if len(parts) is 1:
# The slug has no hypens. To append the unique string we must
# arbitrarly remove `len(unique)` characters from the end of
# `slug`. Subtract one to account for extra hyphen.
slug = slug[:MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH - len(unique) - 1]
else:
slug = '-'.join(parts[:-1])
instance.slug = slug + '-' + unique
def add_slug_to_article_if_not_exists(sender, instance, *ags, **kwargs):
MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH = 255
if instance and not instance.slug:
slug = slugify(instance.title)
unique = generate_random_string()
if len(slug) < MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH:
slug = slug[:MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH]
# combine slug and unique, then the new slug must be less than max length
while len(f'{slug}-{unique}') < MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH:
parts = slug.split('-')
if len(parts) is 1:
# slug is only composed of just one part
slug = slug[:MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH - len(unique) - 1]
else:
slug = '-'.join(parts[:-1])
instance.slug = slug + '-' + unique
def add_slug_to_article_if_not_exists(sender, instance, *args, **kwargs):
MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH = 255
if instance and not instance.slug:
slug = slugify(instance.title)
unique = generate_random_string()
if len(slug) > MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH:
slug = slug[:MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH]
while len(slug + '-' + unique) > MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH:
parts = slug.split('-')
if len(parts) is 1:
# The slug has no hypens. To append the unique string we must
# arbitrarly remove `len(unique)` characters from the end of
# `slug`. Subtract one to account for extra hyphen.
slug = slug[:MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH - len(unique) - 1]
else:
slug = '-'.join(parts[:-1])
instance.slug = slug + '-' + unique
def add_slug_to_article_if_not_exists(sender, instance, *args, **kwargs):
MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH = 255
if instance and not instance.slug:
slug = slugify(instance.title)
unique = generate_random_string()
if len(slug) > MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH:
slug = slug[:MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH]
# If the title is too long to create a nice slug, iteratively chop words off it until we
# have enough room to append our unique characters to it.
while len(slug + '-' + unique) > MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH:
parts = slug.split('-')
if len(parts) is 1:
# The slug has no hypens. To append the unique string we must arbitrarily remove
# len(unique) character from the end of the slug. Subtract one to account for the
# extra hyphen.
slug = slug[:MAXIMUM_SLUG_LENGTH - (len(unique) + 1)]
else:
slug = '-'.join(parts[:-1])
instance.slug = slug + '-' + unique