- added "encoding()" filter; this allows a filter expression to specify the encoding and error

handling for the given expression.
usage is like:  ${data | encoding('utf-8', errors='strict')}

CHANGES

 0.1.1
 - AST parsing fixes: fixed TryExcept identifier parsing
+- added "encoding()" filter; this allows a filter expression to specify the encoding and error
+handling for the given expression.
+usage is like:  ${data | encoding('utf-8', errors='strict')}
 
 0.1.0
 

lib/mako/codegen.py

@@ -377,7 +377,14 @@ class _GenerateRenderMethod(object):
         if self.compiler.pagetag:
             args += self.compiler.pagetag.filter_args.args
         for e in args:
-            e = d.get(e, e)
+            # if filter given as a function, get just the identifier portion
+            m = re.match(r'(.+?)(\(.*\))', e)
+            if m:
+                (ident, fargs) = m.group(1,2)
+                f = d.get(ident, ident)
+                e = f + fargs
+            else:
+                e = d.get(e, e)
             target = "%s(%s)" % (e, target)
         return target
         

lib/mako/filters.py

@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ def url_unescape(string):
 def trim(string):
     return string.strip()
     
-
+def encoding(encoding, errors='strict'):
+    return lambda x:unicode(x, encoding=encoding, errors=errors)
+    
 _ASCII_re = re.compile(r'\A[\x00-\x7f]*\Z')
 
 def is_ascii_str(text):
@@ -148,6 +150,7 @@ DEFAULT_ESCAPES = {
     'u':url_escape,
     'trim':trim,
     'entity':html_entities_escape,
+    'encoding':encoding
 }
     
 

test/def.py

@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ class ScopeTest(unittest.TestCase):
         """)
         
         # test via inheritance
-        print l.get_template("main").code
+        #print l.get_template("main").code
         assert result_lines(l.get_template("main").render()) == [
             "this is main. x is 12",
             "this is a, x is 12"

test/filters.py

+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
 from mako.template import Template
 import unittest
 from util import result_lines, flatten_result
@@ -18,6 +20,14 @@ class FilterTest(unittest.TestCase):
             return lambda x: "MYFILTER->%s<-%s" % (x, y)
         assert flatten_result(t.render(x="this is x", myfilter=myfilter, y="this is y")) == "MYFILTER->this is x<-this is y"
 
+    def test_builtin_func(self):
+        t = Template("""
+            ${x | encoding('utf-8')}
+        """)
+        udata = u"""Alors vous imaginez ma surprise, au lever du jour, quand une drôle de petit voix m’a réveillé. Elle disait: « S’il vous plaît… dessine-moi un mouton! »"""
+        utf8data = udata.encode('utf-8')
+        assert flatten_result(t.render_unicode(x=utf8data)) == udata
+        
     def test_def(self):
         t = Template("""
             <%def name="foo()" filter="myfilter">

test_htdocs/read_unicode.html

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ try:
     file_content = open(path)
 except:
     raise "Should never execute here"
-doc_content = ''.join(file_content.readlines()).decode('utf-8')
+doc_content = ''.join(file_content.readlines())
 file_content.close()
 %>
 
-${doc_content}
+${doc_content | encoding('utf-8')}