Modified the REST API to provide group descriptions taken from the group charters if group.description is blank.

- Legacy-Id: 12993

ietf/group/models.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import datetime
 import email.utils
+import re
 from urlparse import urljoin
 
 from django.db import models
@@ -168,6 +169,22 @@ class Group(GroupInfo):
             status_events = status_events.filter(time__gte=previous_meeting.end_date()+datetime.timedelta(days=1))
         return status_events.first()
 
+    def get_description(self):
+        """
+        Return self.description if set, otherwise the first paragraph of the
+        charter if any, else a short error message.  Used to provide a
+        fallback for self.description in group.resources.GroupResource.
+        """
+        desc = 'No description available'
+        if self.description:
+            desc = self.description
+        elif self.charter:
+            text = self.charter.text()
+            # split into paragraphs and grab the first non-empty one
+            if text:
+                desc = [ p for p in re.split('\r?\n\s*\r?\n\s*', text) if p.strip() ][0]
+        return desc
+
 class GroupHistory(GroupInfo):
     group = models.ForeignKey(Group, related_name='history_set')
     acronym = models.CharField(max_length=40)

ietf/group/resources.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Autogenerated by the mkresources management command 2014-11-13 23:15
 from ietf.api import ModelResource
 from ietf.api import ToOneField
-from tastypie.fields import ToManyField
+from tastypie.fields import ToManyField, CharField
 from tastypie.constants import ALL, ALL_WITH_RELATIONS
 from tastypie.cache import SimpleCache
 
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ class GroupResource(ModelResource):
     charter = ToOneField('ietf.doc.resources.DocumentResource', 'charter', null=True)
     unused_states = ToManyField('ietf.doc.resources.StateResource', 'unused_states', null=True)
     unused_tags = ToManyField(DocTagNameResource, 'unused_tags', null=True)
+    description = CharField(attribute='get_description')
     class Meta:
         cache = SimpleCache()
         queryset = Group.objects.all()

ietf/utils/test_data.py

@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ def make_test_data():
     group = Group.objects.create(
         name="Martian Special Interest Group",
         acronym="mars",
+        description="This group discusses mars issues.",
         state_id="active",
         type_id="wg",
         parent=area,
@@ -159,6 +160,7 @@ def make_test_data():
     group = Group.objects.create(
         name="Asteroid Mining Equipment Standardization Group",
         acronym="ames",
+        description="This group works towards standardization of asteroid mining equipment.",
         state_id="proposed",
         type_id="wg",
         parent=area,
@@ -185,6 +187,7 @@ def make_test_data():
     frfarea = Group.objects.create(
         name="Far Future Area Group",
         acronym="frfarea",
+        description="This group discusses future space colonization issues.",
         state_id="active",
         type_id="ag",
         parent=area,
@@ -195,6 +198,7 @@ def make_test_data():
     irg_rg = Group.objects.create(
         name="Internet Research Group",
         acronym="irg",
+        description="This group handles internet research.",
         state_id="active",
         type_id="rg",
         parent=irtf,