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+# just one instance of validator
+from django.views.generic.base import TemplateView
+from django.template import RequestContext
+from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
+
+from manifold.core.query import Query, AnalyzedQuery
+
+from unfold.page import Page
+
+from ui.topmenu import topmenu_items, the_user
+
+from plugins.validatebutton import ValidateButton
+
+class ValidateButtonView (TemplateView):
+
+ # mention a user name in the URL as .../trash/simplevalidatebutton/ple.inria.thierry_parmentelat
+ def get (self, request, username='ple.inria.thierry_parmentelat'):
+
+ if username=='logged': username='$user_hrn'
+
+ page=Page(request)
+
+ query_pi_auths = Query.get('ple:user').filter_by('user_hrn', '==', username ).select('pi_authorities')
+ page.enqueue_query(query_pi_auths)
+
+ # even though this plugin does not have any html materialization, the corresponding domid
+ # must exist because it is searched at init-time to create the JS plugin
+ # so we simply piggy-back the target button here
+ validatebutton = ValidateButton (page=page,
+ # see above
+ domid='topmenu-validation',
+ query=query_pi_auths,
+ # this one is the target for enabling when the query comes back
+ button_domid="topmenu-validation")
+ # there is a need to call render() for exposing the query and creating the js plugin
+ # even though this returns an empty string
+ validatebutton.render(request)
+
+
+ # variables that will get passed to the view-unfold1.html template
+ template_env = {}
+
+ # write something of our own instead
+ template_env ['unfold_main'] = '<h1>Some title </h1>'
+
+ # more general variables expected in the template
+ template_env [ 'title' ] = 'simple validatebutton %(username)s'%locals()
+ # the menu items on the top
+ template_env [ 'topmenu_items' ] = topmenu_items('Slice', request)
+ # so we can see who is logged
+ template_env [ 'username' ] = the_user (request)
+
+ # don't forget to run the requests
+ page.expose_queries ()
+
+ # the prelude object in page contains a summary of the requirements() for all plugins
+ # define {js,css}_{files,chunks}
+ prelude_env = page.prelude_env()
+
+# print prelude_env.keys()
+# for k in [ 'js_files' ] :
+# print 'prelude_env',prelude_env,k,prelude_env[k]
+
+ template_env.update(prelude_env)
+ result=render_to_response ('view-unfold1.html',template_env,
+ context_instance=RequestContext(request))
+ return result