def ajax_add_event(request):
#decoding the inputted JSON blob
json_data = request.POST['data_as_json']
post_data = json_str_to_dict(json_data)
# parsing the input dates and times
tz = post_data.get('timezone', None)
tz = pytz.timezone(tz)
start_date = post_data.get('start_date', None)
start_time = post_data.get('start_time', None)
end_date = post_data.get('end_date', None)
end_time = post_data.get('end_time', None)
# error out if we didn't get them
if not (start_date and start_time and end_date and end_time):
print "didn't get the stuff that we wanted"
return HttpResponse(simplejson.dumps({ 'status': 400, 'message': 'couldn\'t find the time parameters'}), status=400)
start_date_m, start_date_d, start_date_y = map(int, start_date.split('/'))
end_date_m, end_date_d, end_date_y = map(int, end_date.split('/'))
start_time_h, start_time_m = map(int, start_time.split(':'))
end_time_h, end_time_m = map(int, end_time.split(':'))
#start_datetime = datetime.datetime(start_date_y, start_date_m, start_date_d, start_time_h, start_time_m, tzinfo=tz)
#end_datetime = datetime.datetime(end_date_y, end_date_m, end_date_d, end_time_h, end_time_m, tzinfo=tz)
# NOTICE TO THE WORLD: IF YOU DO THE ABOVE, DST WILL BE BASICALLY IGNORED. BUT IF YOU DO THIS:
start_datetime = tz.localize(datetime.datetime(start_date_y, start_date_m, start_date_d, start_time_h, start_time_m))
end_datetime = tz.localize(datetime.datetime(end_date_y, end_date_m, end_date_d, end_time_h, end_time_m))
# THEN IT WORKS AS EXPECTED.
# WHY? I DONT KNOW.
# SPECIFYING THE TZ AFTER INSTANTIATION HAS DIFFERENT BEHAVIOR THAN SPECIFYING DURING
# I'M FED UP WITH THIS WORLD
# convert to utc and then naiveify
# note: we need to naive-ify or else heroku will aggressively try to convert to another timezone at insertion time
start_datetime, end_datetime = map(utils.naiveify_datetime, [start_datetime, end_datetime])
# make the calendaritem
c = CalendarItem()
c.name = post_data.get('title', '')
c.location = post_data.get('location', '')
c.info = post_data.get('info', '')
c.start_datetime = start_datetime
c.end_datetime = end_datetime
c.save()
our_url = c.get_url_for_cal_item()
return_dict = {'our_url': our_url}
return HttpResponse(simplejson.dumps(return_dict), mimetype='application/x-javascript')
def ajax_add_event(request):
#decoding the inputted JSON blob
json_data = request.POST['data_as_json']
#escape newlines because they break the JSON parser
json_data = '\\n'.join(json_data.splitlines())
print json_data #DEBUG
post_data = simplejson.loads(json_data)
post_data = map(lambda d: (d['name'], d['value']), post_data)
post_data = dict(post_data)
#put the newlines back
post_data['info'] = post_data['info'].replace('\\n', '\n')
# parsing the input dates and times
tz = post_data.get('timezone', None)
tz = pytz.timezone(tz)
start_date = post_data.get('start_date', None)
start_time = post_data.get('start_time', None)
end_date = post_data.get('end_date', None)
end_time = post_data.get('end_time', None)
# error out if we didn't get them
if not (start_date and start_time and end_date and end_time):
print "didn't get the stuff that we wanted"
return HttpResponse(simplejson.dumps({ 'status': 400, 'message': 'couldn\'t find the time parameters'}), status=400)
start_date_m, start_date_d, start_date_y = map(int, start_date.split('/'))
end_date_m, end_date_d, end_date_y = map(int, end_date.split('/'))
start_time_h, start_time_m = map(int, start_time.split(':'))
end_time_h, end_time_m = map(int, end_time.split(':'))
start_datetime = datetime.datetime(start_date_y, start_date_m, start_date_d, start_time_h, start_time_m, tzinfo=tz)
end_datetime = datetime.datetime(end_date_y, end_date_m, end_date_d, end_time_h, end_time_m, tzinfo=tz)
# convert to utc and then naiveify
# note: we need to naive-ify or else heroku will aggressively try to convert to another timezone at insertion time
start_datetime, end_datetime = map(lambda dt: dt.astimezone(pytz.utc).replace(tzinfo=None), [start_datetime, end_datetime])
# make the calendaritem
c = CalendarItem()
c.name = post_data.get('title', '')
c.location = post_data.get('location', '')
c.info = post_data.get('info', '')
c.start_datetime = start_datetime
c.end_datetime = end_datetime
tries_left = 3
while tries_left >= 0:
tries_left-=1
c.slug = generate_hash(c.id)
try:
c.save()
break
except IntegrityError:
print "slug collision. re-rolling..."
continue
except:
print "trouble putting the calendar item in the database"
return HttpResponse(simplejson.dumps({ 'status': 400, 'message': 'couldn\'t put calendar item in the database'}), status=400)
#if we tried X times and didn't get a slug that we could use...
if tries_left <0:
print "rolled X times and couldn't get a good slug"
return HttpResponse(simplejson.dumps({ 'status': 400, 'message': 'couldn\'t get a good slug after X rolls'}), status=400)
#gcal_url = google_url_from_calendaritem_dict(c.__dict__)
our_url = current_site_url() + '/' + c.slug
return_dict = {'our_url': our_url}
return HttpResponse(simplejson.dumps(return_dict), mimetype='application/x-javascript')