Format all news items using markdown

Implements FS#13741. A preview function is also added so working with news
items is easier to make sure you get the formatting right.

This will result in some older news items looking a bit weird if they didn't
put linebreaks in all the right places, we can fix a few of these as we
notice them.

Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/news/views.py b/news/views.py
index 0b7b379e..887fe1dc 100644
--- a/news/views.py
+++ b/news/views.py
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 from django import forms
 from django.contrib.auth.decorators import permission_required
+from django.http import HttpResponse
 from django.shortcuts import render_to_response, redirect
 from django.template import RequestContext
 from django.views.decorators.cache import never_cache
 from django.views.generic import list_detail, create_update
 
+import markdown
+
 from main.models import News
 
 def view(request, newsid):
@@ -57,4 +60,13 @@ def edit(request, newsid):
             form_class=NewsForm,
             template_name="news/add.html")
 
+@permission_required('main.change_news')
+@never_cache
+def preview(request):
+    markup = ''
+    if request.POST:
+        data = request.POST.get('data', '')
+        markup = markdown.markdown(data)
+    return HttpResponse(markup)
+
 # vim: set ts=4 sw=4 et: