views.py

                        'uid':c.user.id,
                        'cid':c.id} for c in changes]}
    return render_to_response('name_changes.html', js)


@ensure_csrf_cookie
def reject_name_change(request):
    ''' JSON: Name change process. Course staff clicks 'reject' on a given name change '''
    if not request.user.is_staff:
        raise Http404

    try:
        pnc = PendingNameChange.objects.get(id=int(request.POST['id']))
    except PendingNameChange.DoesNotExist:
        return HttpResponse(json.dumps({'success': False, 'error': 'Invalid ID'}))

    pnc.delete()
    return HttpResponse(json.dumps({'success': True}))


def accept_name_change_by_id(id):
    try:
        pnc = PendingNameChange.objects.get(id=id)
    except PendingNameChange.DoesNotExist:
        return HttpResponse(json.dumps({'success': False, 'error': 'Invalid ID'}))

    u = pnc.user
    up = UserProfile.objects.get(user=u)

    # Save old name
    meta = up.get_meta()
    if 'old_names' not in meta:
        meta['old_names'] = []
    meta['old_names'].append([up.name, pnc.rationale, datetime.datetime.now().isoformat()])
    up.set_meta(meta)

    up.name = pnc.new_name
    up.save()
    pnc.delete()

    return HttpResponse(json.dumps({'success': True}))


@ensure_csrf_cookie
def accept_name_change(request):
    ''' JSON: Name change process. Course staff clicks 'accept' on a given name change

    We used this during the prototype but now we simply record name changes instead
    of manually approving them. Still keeping this around in case we want to go
    back to this approval method.
    '''
    if not request.user.is_staff:
        raise Http404

    return accept_name_change_by_id(int(request.POST['id']))

# TODO: This is a giant kludge to give Pearson something to test against ASAP.
#       Will need to get replaced by something that actually ties into TestCenterUser
@csrf_exempt
def test_center_login(request):
    if not settings.MITX_FEATURES.get('ENABLE_PEARSON_HACK_TEST'):
        raise Http404

    client_candidate_id = request.POST.get("clientCandidateID")
    # registration_id = request.POST.get("registrationID")
    exit_url = request.POST.get("exitURL")
    error_url = request.POST.get("errorURL")

    if client_candidate_id == "edX003671291147":
        user = authenticate(username=settings.PEARSON_TEST_USER,
                            password=settings.PEARSON_TEST_PASSWORD)
        login(request, user)
        return redirect('/courses/MITx/6.002x/2012_Fall/courseware/Final_Exam/Final_Exam_Fall_2012/')
    else:
        return HttpResponseForbidden()


def _get_news(top=None):
    "Return the n top news items on settings.RSS_URL"

    feed_data = cache.get("students_index_rss_feed_data")
    if feed_data == None:
        if hasattr(settings, 'RSS_URL'):
            feed_data = urllib.urlopen(settings.RSS_URL).read()
        else:
            feed_data = render_to_string("feed.rss", None)
        cache.set("students_index_rss_feed_data", feed_data, settings.RSS_TIMEOUT)

    feed = feedparser.parse(feed_data)
    entries = feed['entries'][0:top]  # all entries if top is None
    for entry in entries:
        soup = BeautifulSoup(entry.description)
        entry.image = soup.img['src'] if soup.img else None
        entry.summary = soup.getText()

    return entries