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-rw-r--r--wqflask/wqflask/markdown_routes.py31
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/wqflask/wqflask/markdown_routes.py b/wqflask/wqflask/markdown_routes.py
index e7e3c33e..33092947 100644
--- a/wqflask/wqflask/markdown_routes.py
+++ b/wqflask/wqflask/markdown_routes.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
Render pages from github, or if they are unavailable, look for it else where
"""
+import os
import requests
import mistune
@@ -11,19 +12,27 @@ from flask import render_template
glossary_blueprint = Blueprint('glossary_blueprint', __name__)
-@glossary_blueprint.route('/')
-def glossary():
- markdown_url = ("https://raw.githubusercontent.com"
- "/genenetwork/genenetwork2/"
- "wqflask/wqflask/static"
- "/glossary.md")
+def render_markdown(file_name):
+ """Try to fetch the file name from Github and if that fails, try to
+look for it inside the file system
+
+ """
+ markdown_url = (f"https://raw.githubusercontent.com"
+ f"/genenetwork/genenetwork2/"
+ f"wqflask/wqflask/static/"
+ f"{file_name}")
md_content = requests.get(markdown_url)
if md_content.status_code == 200:
- return render_template(
- "glossary_html",
- rendered_markdown=mistune.html(
- md_content.content.decode("utf-8"))), 200
+ return mistune.html(md_content.content.decode("utf-8"))
+
+ with open(os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)),
+ f"static/markdown/{file_name}")) as md_file:
+ markdown = md_file.read()
+ return mistune.html(markdown)
+
+@glossary_blueprint.route('/')
+def glossary():
return render_template(
"glossary.html",
- rendered_markdown=mistune.html("# Github Down!")), 200
+ rendered_markdown=render_markdown("glossary.md")), 200