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Pagination helper

Author:
Ztyx
Posted:
January 15, 2013
Language:
Python
Version:
1.4
Score:
1 (after 1 ratings)

You have pagination for some blog. At the bottom of the page you have space for seven page links. This module tries to always fill out those slots. It handles the corner cases for first page and last page etc.

The logic for this is complex and sadly the Django pagination module does not deal with this. Also, it's a hell to implement this in Django templates. Believe me.

See pydoc for detailed documentation. Running tests was done with doctest.

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from django.template import Library, Node, TemplateSyntaxError


register = Library()


class _SlicedPaginator:
    def __init__(self, curpage, npages, maxpages_items):
        """Contructor.
        
        Example:
        >>> _SlicedPaginator(1, 3, 3)
        _SlicedPaginator(curpage=1, npages=3, maxpages_items=3)
        """
        self.curpage = int(curpage)
        self.npages = int(npages)
        self.maxpages_items = int(maxpages_items)
        assert 1 <= self.curpage <= self.npages, "%s %s" % (self.curpage,
                                                            self.npages)
        assert self.maxpages_items > 0
        assert self.maxpages_items % 2 == 1, "Only uneven maxpages_items supported. Unclear how to be presented otherwise."
        self.max_prev_items = (self.maxpages_items - 1) / 2
        self.max_next_items = self.max_prev_items
        
    def __repr__(self):
        tmpl = "_SlicedPaginator(curpage={0}, npages={1}, maxpages_items={2})"
        return tmpl.format(self.curpage, self.npages, self.maxpages_items)
        
    def _build_full_list(self):
        """Build a full list of pages.
        
        Examples:
        >>> _SlicedPaginator(1, 7, 5)._build_full_list()
        [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
        >>> _SlicedPaginator(6, 7, 5)._build_full_list()
        [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
        >>> _SlicedPaginator(6, 7, 5)._build_full_list()
        [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
        >>> import itertools
        >>> combinations = itertools.combinations(range(100), 2)
        >>> combinations = filter(lambda (x,y): x<y, combinations)
        >>> for page, maxpages in combinations:
        ...     a = _SlicedPaginator(page + 1, maxpages, 7)
        ...     b = a._build_full_list()
        >>> _SlicedPaginator(2, 5, 7)._build_full_list()
        [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
        >>> _SlicedPaginator(5, 5, 7)._build_full_list()
        [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
        """
        if self.npages <= self.maxpages_items:
            return range(1, self.npages + 1)
        else:
            l = range(self.curpage - self.max_prev_items,
                      self.curpage + self.max_next_items + 1)
            while l and l[0] < 1:
                l.append(l[-1] + 1)
                del l[0]
            while l and l[-1] > self.npages:
                l.insert(0, l[0] - 1)
                del l[-1]
            return l
            
    
    def prev_pages(self):
        """Get the previous pages.
        
        Example:
        >>> map(lambda i: _SlicedPaginator(i, 6, 3).prev_pages(), range(1, 7))
        [[], [1], [2], [3], [4], [4, 5]]
        >>> map(lambda i: _SlicedPaginator(i, 7, 3).prev_pages(), range(1, 8))
        [[], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [5, 6]]
        >>> map(lambda i: _SlicedPaginator(i, 6, 5).prev_pages(), range(1, 7))
        [[], [1], [1, 2], [2, 3], [2, 3, 4], [2, 3, 4, 5]]
        >>> map(lambda i: _SlicedPaginator(i, 7, 5).prev_pages(), range(1, 8))
        [[], [1], [1, 2], [2, 3], [3, 4], [3, 4, 5], [3, 4, 5, 6]]
        """
        return filter(lambda x: x < self.curpage, self._build_full_list())
    
    def hidden_prev_pages(self):
        """Check if the previous pages where sliced.
        
        Example:
        >>> map(lambda i: _SlicedPaginator(i, 6, 3).hidden_prev_pages(), range(1, 7))
        [False, False, True, True, True, True]
        >>> map(lambda i: _SlicedPaginator(i, 7, 3).hidden_prev_pages(), range(1, 8))
        [False, False, True, True, True, True, True]
        >>> map(lambda i: _SlicedPaginator(i, 6, 5).hidden_prev_pages(), range(1, 7))
        [False, False, False, True, True, True]
        >>> map(lambda i: _SlicedPaginator(i, 7, 5).hidden_prev_pages(), range(1, 8))
        [False, False, False, True, True, True, True]
        """
        prev_pages = self.prev_pages()
        return len(prev_pages) > 0 and prev_pages[0] > 1
        
    def next_pages(self):
        """Get the next pages.
        
        Example:
        >>> map(lambda i: _SlicedPaginator(i, 6, 3).next_pages(), range(1, 7))
        [[2, 3], [3], [4], [5], [6], []]
        >>> map(lambda i: _SlicedPaginator(i, 7, 3).next_pages(), range(1, 8))
        [[2, 3], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], []]
        >>> map(lambda i: _SlicedPaginator(i, 6, 5).next_pages(), range(1, 7))
        [[2, 3, 4, 5], [3, 4, 5], [4, 5], [5, 6], [6], []]
        >>> map(lambda i: _SlicedPaginator(i, 7, 5).next_pages(), range(1, 8))
        [[2, 3, 4, 5], [3, 4, 5], [4, 5], [5, 6], [6, 7], [7], []]
        """
        return filter(lambda x: x > self.curpage, self._build_full_list())
    
    def hidden_next_pages(self):
        """Check if the next pages where sliced.
        
        Example:
        >>> map(lambda i: _SlicedPaginator(i, 6, 3).hidden_next_pages(), range(1, 7))
        [True, True, True, True, False, False]
        >>> map(lambda i: _SlicedPaginator(i, 7, 3).hidden_next_pages(), range(1, 8))
        [True, True, True, True, True, False, False]
        >>> map(lambda i: _SlicedPaginator(i, 6, 5).hidden_next_pages(), range(1, 7))
        [True, True, True, False, False, False]
        >>> map(lambda i: _SlicedPaginator(i, 7, 5).hidden_next_pages(), range(1, 8))
        [True, True, True, True, False, False, False]
        """
        next_pages = self.next_pages()
        return len(next_pages) > 0 and next_pages[-1] < self.npages


class _PaginatorSliceNode(Node):
    def __init__(self, context_name, paginatorname, maxpages_items):
        self.context_name = context_name
        self.paginatorname = paginatorname
        self.maxpages_items = maxpages_items
    def render(self, context):
        sliced_paginator = _SlicedPaginator(context[self.paginatorname].number,
                                            context[self.paginatorname].paginator.num_pages,
                                            self.maxpages_items)
        context[self.context_name] = sliced_paginator
        return ""
        

def _get_errstr(fnctn):
    s = "%s takes the syntax %s limited_pagination paginator_page max_items\
             as context_variable"
    return s % (fnctn, fnctn)

        
@register.tag
def sliced_pagination(parser, token):
    """
    Slices a paginator.
    
    Syntax:
    {% sliced_pagination page 5 as sliced_paginator %}
    
    where
     - page is an instance of the Django `Page` class.
     - max_items are the number of items to be shown in total. Ie., 5 will yield
        << 1 2 3 4 5 ... >>
       or
        << ... 4 5 6 7 8 ... >>
       or
        << ... 10 11 12 13 15 >>
       Currently only uneven numbers are supported for this parameter due to
       have even lists of pages on both sides.
    
    Sample syntax to use the sliced paginator:
    {% if sliced_paginator.hidden_prev_pages %}
    ...
    {% endif %}
    {% for pageno in sliced_paginator.prev_pages %}
        <a href="?page={{ pageno }}">{{ pageno}}</a>
    {% endfor %}
    <a href="#" class="current">{{ page.number }}</a>
    {% for pageno in sliced_paginator.next_pages %}
        <a href="?page={{ pageno }}">{{ pageno}}</a>
    {% endfor %}
    {% if sliced_paginator.hidden_next_pages %}
    ...
    {% endif %}
    
    Produces:
    ...           # only shown if needed
    <a href="?page=3">3</a>
    <a href="?page=4">4</a>
    <a href="#" class="current">5</a>
    <a href="?page=6">6</a>
    <a href="?page=7">7</a>
    ...           # only shown if needed
    
    """
    try:
        fnctn, paginatorname, max_items, trash, context_name = token.split_contents()
    except ValueError:
        raise TemplateSyntaxError, _get_errstr(fnctn)
    if not trash == 'as':
        raise TemplateSyntaxError, _get_errstr(fnctn)
    return _PaginatorSliceNode(context_name, paginatorname, max_items)

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Comments

ja_n (on January 28, 2013):

Line 46 throws an error when prelist == []. It needs "if prelist:" clause.

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Ztyx (on February 18, 2013):

@ja_n This is fixed. Also added a test case for it. Thanks.

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