app/django/contrib/formtools/utils.py
author Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:49:10 +0000
changeset 662 0e89b027b140
parent 323 ff1a9aa48cfd
permissions -rw-r--r--
Make use of the new generic key_name by lookup up scope_path This way base classes do not have to look up the 'scope' property, instead they can rely on the base class to do it for them provided they define the 'scope_logic' param. Patch by: Sverre Rabbelier

try:
    import cPickle as pickle
except ImportError:
    import pickle

from django.conf import settings
from django.utils.hashcompat import md5_constructor
from django.forms import BooleanField

def security_hash(request, form, *args):
    """
    Calculates a security hash for the given Form instance.

    This creates a list of the form field names/values in a deterministic
    order, pickles the result with the SECRET_KEY setting, then takes an md5
    hash of that.
    """

    data = [(bf.name, bf.field.clean(bf.data) or '') for bf in form]
    data.extend(args)
    data.append(settings.SECRET_KEY)

    # Use HIGHEST_PROTOCOL because it's the most efficient. It requires
    # Python 2.3, but Django requires 2.3 anyway, so that's OK.
    pickled = pickle.dumps(data, pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)

    return md5_constructor(pickled).hexdigest()