getListContentForData function added to lists helper.
It allows to manually set a list of entities which is to be displayed on the view. Previously, the only function was getListContent, but it retrived data on its own by a single query. The new function can be useful whenever it is impossible or very awkward to obtain entities in such a way (for example more sophisticated SQL statements).
Additionally, the getListContent function is reconstructed so that it collects the data first and then calls getListContentForData.
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()