app/django/contrib/formtools/utils.py
author Lennard de Rijk <ljvderijk@gmail.com>
Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:16:18 +0000
changeset 2034 59de158c936d
parent 323 ff1a9aa48cfd
permissions -rw-r--r--
Fixed the duplicate slots view. The script would not clear the screen upon recalculation also the list of duplicates would increase with every iteration because the variables weren't properly reset. Patch by: Merio Ferraro, Lennard de Rijk Reviewed by: to-be-reviewed

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()