def create_placeholder_for_atomid()

in atomresponder/vs_mixin.py [0:0]

• 17 lines of code
• 2 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    def create_placeholder_for_atomid(atomid, filename, project_id, title="unknown video", user="unknown_user"):
        """
        Creates a placeholder and returns a VSItem object for it
        :param atomid: atom ID string
        :param filename: path of the file to import
        :param project_id: ID number of the project that the video is associated with
        :param title: title of the new video
        :return: VSItem object
        """
        item = VSItem(url=settings.VIDISPINE_URL,user=settings.VIDISPINE_USERNAME,passwd=settings.VIDISPINE_PASSWORD)

        basemeta = {
            const.GNM_ASSET_CATEGORY: "Deliverable",
            const.GNM_ASSET_ORIGINAL_FILENAME: filename,
            const.GNM_ASSET_OWNER: user,
            const.GNM_ASSET_FILE_CREATED: datetime.datetime.now().isoformat("T")
        }

        if project_id is not None:
            basemeta[const.GNM_ASSET_CONTAINING_PROJECTS] = [project_id]

        builder = item.get_metadata_builder()
        builder.addMeta({'title': title})
        builder.addGroup(const.GROUP_GNM_ASSET, basemeta)
        # the 'deliverables' group requires deliverable bundle ID to be present in order to be valid,
        # but we don't know what that is here (it's assigned in pluto-deliverables)
        # Once pluto-deliverables has assigned these IDs, it adds them to the Vidispine record.

        mdbytes:bytes = builder.as_xml("UTF-8")
        item.createPlaceholder(mdbytes.decode("UTF-8"))
        item.add_external_id(atomid)
        return item