Greg Allard

#import all of the things we will be using
from django.db                          import models
from tagging.fields                     import TagField
# to help with translation of field names
from django.utils.translation  import ugettext_lazy as _
# to have a generic foreign key for any model
from django.contrib.contenttypes        import generic
# stores model info so this can be applied to any model
from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
 
class Book(models.Model):
    """
    The details of a Book
    """
    # fields that describe this book
    name        = models.CharField(_('name'), max_length=48)
    description = models.TextField(_('description'))
 
    # to add to any model
    content_type   = models.ForeignKey(ContentType)
    object_id      = models.PositiveIntegerField()
    content_object = generic.GenericForeignKey('content_type',
        'object_id')
 
    # for the list of tags for this book
    tags        = TagField()
 
    # misc fields
    deleted     = models.BooleanField(default=0)
    created     = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    # so that {{book.get_absolute_url}} outputs the whole url
    @models.permalink
    def get_absolute_url(self):
        return ("book_details", [self.pk])
    # outputs name when printing this object as a string
    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.name

from django import forms
from books.models import Book
 
class NewBookForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Book
        exclude = ('deleted', 'content_type',
            'object_id', 'created')

from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
from django.template import RequestContext
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
 
from tribes.models import Tribe
from books.models import Book
from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
 
@login_required
def new(request, content_type_id, object_id,
            template_name="books/new.html"):
    """
    creates a new book
    """
    from books.forms import NewBookForm
 
    # if a new book was posted
    if request.method == 'POST':
        book_form = NewBookForm(request.POST)
        if book_form.is_valid():
            # create it
            book = book_form.save(commit=False)
            content_type        = \
                ContentType.objects.get(id=content_type_id)
            content_object      = \
                content_type.get_object_for_this_type(
                id=object_id)
            book.content_object = content_object
            book.save()
            request.user.message_set.create(
                message=
                _("Successfully created book '%s'")
                % book.name)
            # send to object page or book page
            try:
                return HttpResponseRedirect(
                    content_object.get_absolute_url()
                )
            except:
                return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse(
                    'book_details', args=(book.id,)))
        # if invalid, it gets displayed below
    else:
        book_form = NewBookForm()
 
    return render_to_response(template_name, {
        'book_form': book_form,
    }, context_instance=RequestContext(request))
 
@login_required
def details(request, book_id,
    template_name="books/details.html"):
    """
    displays details of a book
    """
    book = get_object_or_404(Book, id=book_id)
    return render_to_response(template_name, {
        'book': book,
    }, context_instance=RequestContext(request))

from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
 
urlpatterns = patterns('',    
    # new book for object
    url(r'^new/(?P<content_type_id>\d+)/(?P<object_id>\d+)', 
        'books.views.new', name="new_book"),
    # display details of a book
    url(r'^details/(?P<book_id>\d+)$', 'books.views.details', 
        name="book_details"),
)