Cache sidebar with a simple caching API
We cache the sidebar once for every user, the downside is that once
the user meets new access criteria, their sidebar does not get
updated. This can be fixed by calling soc.cache.sidebar.flush() when
appropriate.
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()