Ponysearch/searx/user_help.py
Martin Fischer c53c295573 [enh] make searx.user_help use an explicit TOC
When we have multiple help pages we want them
to be displayed in a specific order.
2022-02-01 06:29:22 +01:00

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# pyright: basic
from typing import Dict, NamedTuple
import pkg_resources
import flask
from flask.helpers import url_for
import mistletoe
from . import get_setting
from .version import GIT_URL
class HelpPage(NamedTuple):
title: str
content: str
# Whenever a new .md file is added to help/ it needs to be added here
_TOC = ('about',)
PAGES: Dict[str, HelpPage] = {}
""" Maps a filename under help/ without the file extension to the rendered page. """
def render(app: flask.Flask):
"""
Renders the user documentation. Must be called after all Flask routes have been
registered, because the documentation might try to link to them with Flask's `url_for`.
We render the user documentation once on startup to improve performance.
"""
link_targets = {
'brand.git_url': GIT_URL,
'brand.public_instances': get_setting('brand.public_instances'),
'brand.docs_url': get_setting('brand.docs_url'),
}
base_url = get_setting('server.base_url') or None
# we specify base_url so that url_for works for base_urls that have a non-root path
with app.test_request_context(base_url=base_url):
link_targets['url_for:index'] = url_for('index')
link_targets['url_for:preferences'] = url_for('preferences')
link_targets['url_for:stats'] = url_for('stats')
define_link_targets = ''.join(f'[{name}]: {url}\n' for name, url in link_targets.items())
for pagename in _TOC:
file_content = pkg_resources.resource_string(__name__, 'help/' + pagename + '.md').decode()
markdown = define_link_targets + file_content
assert file_content.startswith('# ')
title = file_content.split('\n', maxsplit=1)[0].strip('# ')
content: str = mistletoe.markdown(markdown)
if pagename == 'about':
try:
content += pkg_resources.resource_string(__name__, 'templates/__common__/aboutextend.html').decode()
except FileNotFoundError:
pass
PAGES[pagename] = HelpPage(title=title, content=content)