First phase of making the / (site/home) view generic enough to use it for
Sponsor "home" page, Program "home" page, Organization "home" page, etc. when
combined with HomeSettings.
First phase of addressing this issue:
http://code.google.com/p/soc/issues/detail?id=64
by factoring "Site Settings" apart from the site/home stuff.
Patch by: Todd Larsen
Review by: Pawel Solyga
Review URL: http://codereviews.googleopensourceprograms.com/1405
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()