def shorten_link(request):
submit_link = request.GET['link']
#Need to replace the following with regexpression filteration
if 'http://' not in submit_link:
submit_link = 'http://'+submit_link
link = Link.objects.get_or_create(link=submit_link,created_by=request.META.get("REMOTE_ADDR","")) #need to save the link obj first before we hash it because we are basing the hash on the unique ID
if not link[0].link_short: #Get OR CREATE returns a tuple of the object and a boolean value - highlighting the object here [0]
link[0].link_short = BASE_URL+baseconvert(link[0].pk,BASE10,BASE62)
link[0].save()
return render(request,'index.html',{'short_url':link[0].link_short},content_type="text/html") #BASE_URL from settings file
def firstsave(self):
# Create hash
self.hash = baseconvert(str(self.id),BASE10,BASE62)
# Load url
self.fetch_load_url()
# Last datime
self.last_usercall = datetime.datetime.now()
self.save()
