app/django/contrib/formtools/utils.py
author Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:28:07 +0000
changeset 987 6fd5c561b446
parent 323 ff1a9aa48cfd
permissions -rw-r--r--
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()