from django import template
from django.template.defaultfilters import stringfilter

register = template.Library()

@register.filter
@stringfilter
def slicefirst(value, arg=None):
    if arg is None:
        arg = 100

    if len(value) <= int(arg):
        return value
    else:
        return value[:int(arg)] + '...'


@register.filter
@stringfilter
def maxwordlength(value, arg=50):
    arg=int(arg)
    words = value.split(' ')
    newwords = []
    for word in words:
        if len(word)>arg:
            word=word[:arg]+'...'
        newwords.append(word)
    return ' '.join(newwords)

@register.filter
@stringfilter
def filebasename(value, arg=None):
    from os.path import basename
    if value:
        return basename(value)