some translation stuff
[wolnelektury.git] / apps / modeltranslation / fields.py
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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+from django.conf import settings
+from django.db.models.fields import Field, CharField
+
+from modeltranslation.utils import get_language, build_localized_fieldname
+
+
+class TranslationField(Field):
+    """
+    The translation field functions as a proxy to the original field which is
+    wrapped.
+
+    For every field defined in the model's ``TranslationOptions`` localized
+    versions of that field are added to the model depending on the languages
+    given in ``settings.LANGUAGES``.
+
+    If for example there is a model ``News`` with a field ``title`` which is
+    registered for translation and the ``settings.LANGUAGES`` contains the
+    ``de`` and ``en`` languages, the fields ``title_de`` and ``title_en`` will
+    be added to the model class. These fields are realized using this
+    descriptor.
+
+    The translation field needs to know which language it contains therefore
+    that needs to be specified when the field is created.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, translated_field, language, *args, **kwargs):
+        # Store the originally wrapped field for later
+        self.translated_field = translated_field
+        self.language = language
+
+        # Update the dict of this field with the content of the original one
+        # This might be a bit radical?! Seems to work though...
+        self.__dict__.update(translated_field.__dict__)
+
+        # Translation are always optional (for now - maybe add some parameters
+        # to the translation options for configuring this)
+        self.null = True
+        self.blank = True
+
+        # Adjust the name of this field to reflect the language
+        self.attname = build_localized_fieldname(translated_field.name,
+                                                 language)
+        self.name = self.attname
+
+        # Copy the verbose name and append a language suffix (will e.g. in the
+        # admin). This might be a proxy function so we have to check that here.
+        if hasattr(translated_field.verbose_name, '_proxy____unicode_cast'):
+            verbose_name = \
+                translated_field.verbose_name._proxy____unicode_cast()
+        else:
+            verbose_name = translated_field.verbose_name
+        self.verbose_name = '%s [%s]' % (verbose_name, language)
+
+    def pre_save(self, model_instance, add):
+        val = super(TranslationField, self).pre_save(model_instance, add)
+        if get_language() == self.language and not add:
+            # Rule is: 3. Assigning a value to a translation field of the
+            # default language also updates the original field
+            model_instance.__dict__[self.translated_field.name] = val
+        return val
+
+    def get_internal_type(self):
+        return self.translated_field.get_internal_type()
+
+    #def contribute_to_class(self, cls, name):
+        #super(TranslationField, self).contribute_to_class(cls, name)
+        ##setattr(cls, 'get_%s_display' % self.name,
+                ##curry(cls._get_FIELD_display, field=self))
+
+    def south_field_triple(self):
+        """Returns a suitable description of this field for South."""
+        # We'll just introspect the _actual_ field.
+        from south.modelsinspector import introspector
+        field_class = '%s.%s' % (self.translated_field.__class__.__module__,
+                                 self.translated_field.__class__.__name__)
+        args, kwargs = introspector(self.translated_field)
+        # That's our definition!
+        return (field_class, args, kwargs)
+
+    def formfield(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        """Preserves the widget of the translated field."""
+        trans_formfield = self.translated_field.formfield(*args, **kwargs)
+        defaults = {'widget': type(trans_formfield.widget)}
+        defaults.update(kwargs)
+        return super(TranslationField, self).formfield(*args, **defaults)
+
+
+#class CurrentLanguageField(CharField):
+    #def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+        #super(CurrentLanguageField, self).__init__(null=True, max_length=5,
+              #**kwargs)
+
+    #def contribute_to_class(self, cls, name):
+        #super(CurrentLanguageField, self).contribute_to_class(cls, name)
+        #registry = CurrentLanguageFieldRegistry()
+        #registry.add_field(cls, self)
+
+
+#class CurrentLanguageFieldRegistry(object):
+    #_registry = {}
+
+    #def add_field(self, model, field):
+        #reg = self.__class__._registry.setdefault(model, [])
+        #reg.append(field)
+
+    #def get_fields(self, model):
+        #return self.__class__._registry.get(model, [])
+
+    #def __contains__(self, model):
+        #return model in self.__class__._registry