from blog.models import Entry, Blogmark, Quotation from baseconv import base62 from django.http import HttpResponsePermanentRedirect, Http404 from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404 BASE_URL = 'http://simonwillison.net' SHORT_BASE_URL = 'http://swtiny.eu/' PREFIXES = { 'E': Entry, 'B': Blogmark, 'Q': Quotation, } def redirect_view(request, tiny): "This should be hooked up to /shorten/(.*) in the URLconf" if not tiny: return HttpResponsePermanentRedirect(BASE_URL + '/') prefix = tiny[0] tiny = tiny[1:] try: model = PREFIXES[prefix] id = base62.to_decimal(tiny) except (ValueError, KeyError): raise Http404 obj = get_object_or_404(model, pk = id) url = obj.get_absolute_url() if not url.startswith('http://') and not url.startswith('https://'): url = BASE_URL + url return HttpResponsePermanentRedirect(url) def shorten(obj): "Returns a shorter URL for a Django model object, or None if not available" found = None for prefix, model in PREFIXES.items(): if model._meta.db_table == obj._meta.db_table: found = prefix if not found: return None return SHORT_BASE_URL + found + base62.from_decimal(obj.id)