Shortlinks for blog posts

i2p2www/blog/README

@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ with this suffix will be visible at their post URL, but will not be shown in
 the blog index. To publish the draft post, change the filename to remove the
 '.draft' suffix.
 
+Creating shortlinks
+-------------------
+
+See the comments in shortlinks.py.
+
 How to make a release notice
 ----------------------------
 

i2p2www/blog/shortlinks.py

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+############
+# Shortlinks
+#
+# To create the URL https://geti2p.net/b/<shortlink>
+# linking to https://geti2p.net/en/blog/post/<slug>,
+# add a new line below containing
+#
+# '<shortlink>': '<slug>',
+
+BLOG_SHORTLINKS = {
+    'toronto': '2015/05/25/Toronto-Meetup',
+}

i2p2www/blog/views.py

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-from flask import abort, render_template, request
+from flask import abort, g, redirect, render_template, request, url_for
 from werkzeug.contrib.atom import AtomFeed
 
 from i2p2www import BLOG_DIR, BLOG_POSTS_PER_FEED, BLOG_POSTS_PER_PAGE, cache
 from i2p2www.blog.helpers import get_blog_posts, get_blog_feed_items, get_date_from_slug, get_metadata_from_meta, render_blog_post
+from i2p2www.blog.shortlinks import BLOG_SHORTLINKS
 from i2p2www.helpers import Pagination, get_for_page
 
 
@@ -38,6 +39,19 @@ def blog_post(slug):
     else:
         abort(404)
 
+@cache.memoize(600)
+def blog_post_shortlink(shortlink):
+    lang = 'en'
+    if hasattr(g, 'lang') and g.lang:
+        lang = g.lang
+
+    try:
+        slug = BLOG_SHORTLINKS[shortlink]
+    except KeyError:
+        abort(404)
+
+    return redirect(url_for('blog_post', lang=lang, slug=slug))
+
 def blog_rss():
     # TODO: implement
     pass

i2p2www/pages/global/macros

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
   {%- else -%}{{ url_for('blog_index', lang=lang) }}
   {%- endif -%}
 {%- elif request.endpoint == 'blog_post' -%}{{ url_for('blog_post', lang=lang, slug=slug) }}
+{%- elif request.endpoint == 'blog_post_shortlink' -%}{{ url_for('blog_post_shortlink', lang=lang, shortlink=shortlink) }}
 {%- elif request.endpoint == 'meetings_show' -%}{{ url_for('meetings_show', lang=lang, id=id) }}
 {%- elif request.endpoint == 'downloads_debian' -%}{{ url_for('downloads_debian', lang=lang) }}
 {%- elif request.endpoint == 'downloads_select' -%}{{ url_for('downloads_select', lang=lang, version=version, file=file) }}

i2p2www/urls.py

@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ url('/<lang:lang>/blog/post/<path:slug>', 'blog.views.blog_post')
 url('/<lang:lang>/feed/blog/rss', 'blog.views.blog_rss')
 url('/<lang:lang>/feed/blog/atom', 'blog.views.blog_atom')
 url('/<lang:lang>/feed/blog/category/<string:category>/atom', 'blog.views.blog_atom')
+url('/b/<string:shortlink>', 'blog.views.blog_post_shortlink')
 
 url('/<lang:lang>/meetings/', 'meetings.views.meetings_index', defaults={'page': 1})
 url('/<lang:lang>/meetings/page/<int:page>', 'meetings.views.meetings_index')