#211 print date and time in the attrib output

 * Pass the "utc" time to the jinja2 template
 * Update the default html template to display the date and time

Signed-off-by: Chin Yeung Li <[email protected]>

Author: chinyeungli

src/attributecode/attrib.py

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 import codecs
 import collections
+import datetime
 import os
 from posixpath import basename
 from posixpath import dirname
@@ -102,11 +103,14 @@ def generate(abouts, template_string=None):
                 # Add the license name expression string into the about object
                 about.license_name_expression = lic_name_expression
 
+        # Get the current UTC time
+        utcnow = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
         rendered = template.render(abouts=abouts, common_licenses=COMMON_LICENSES,
                                    license_key_and_context=sorted_license_key_and_context,
                                    license_file_name_and_key=license_file_name_and_key,
                                    license_key_to_license_name=license_key_to_license_name,
-                                   license_name_to_license_key=license_name_to_license_key)
+                                   license_name_to_license_key=license_name_to_license_key,
+                                   utcnow=utcnow)
     except Exception as e:
         line = getattr(e, 'lineno', None)
         ln_msg = ' at line: %r' % line if line else ''

src/attributecode/templates/default_html.template

@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@
     {% endfor %}
 
     <h3><a id="End">End</a></h3>
+    <i>This file was generated on: {{ utcnow }} (UTC)</i>
     </body>
 </html>
 

tests/test_attrib.py

@@ -57,5 +57,6 @@ def test_generate_from_file_with_default_template(self):
         result = attrib.generate_from_file(abouts)
         with open(get_test_loc('attrib_gen/expected_default_attrib.html')) as exp:
             expected = exp.read()
+        # strip the timestamp: the timestamp is wrapped in italic block
         self.assertEqual([x.rstrip() for x in expected.splitlines()],
-                         [x.rstrip() for x in  result.splitlines()])
+                         [x.rstrip() for x in result.splitlines() if not '<i>' in x])