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authorCaleb Forbes Davis V <caldavis@gmail.com>2011-07-12 20:06:17 -0500
committerCaleb Forbes Davis V <caldavis@gmail.com>2011-07-12 20:06:17 -0500
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adds filter function to parse and clean tags field input
- for some reason the tags are showing up in the media edit form with u'..' and surrounded with []. I don't know why, grr
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diff --git a/mediagoblin/util.py b/mediagoblin/util.py
index ab219df0..7ee0a2d5 100644
--- a/mediagoblin/util.py
+++ b/mediagoblin/util.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import sys
import re
import urllib
from math import ceil
+from string import strip
import copy
from babel.localedata import exists
@@ -369,8 +370,24 @@ def clean_html(html):
return HTML_CLEANER.clean_html(html)
-MARKDOWN_INSTANCE = markdown.Markdown(safe_mode='escape')
+TAGS_DELIMITER = ' '
+
+def convert_to_tag_list(tag_string):
+ """
+ Filter input from a "tags" field,
+ Strips trailing, leading, and internal whitespace, and also converts
+ the user input into an array of tags
+ """
+ if tag_string:
+ taglist = []
+ stripped_tag_string = ' '.join(tag_string.strip().split())
+ for tag in stripped_tag_string.split(TAGS_DELIMITER):
+ if tag.strip(): taglist.append(tag.strip())
+ return taglist
+
+
+MARKDOWN_INSTANCE = markdown.Markdown(safe_mode='escape')
def cleaned_markdown_conversion(text):
"""