Removed getSurveyResponseFromPost from Surveys helper.
We will use the power of Django Forms instead of getting our own properties. This fits better into the rest of Melange which also uses this approach.
from os.path import join, normcase, abspath, sep
from django.utils.encoding import force_unicode
def safe_join(base, *paths):
"""
Joins one or more path components to the base path component intelligently.
Returns a normalized, absolute version of the final path.
The final path must be located inside of the base path component (otherwise
a ValueError is raised).
"""
# We need to use normcase to ensure we don't false-negative on case
# insensitive operating systems (like Windows).
base = force_unicode(base)
paths = [force_unicode(p) for p in paths]
final_path = normcase(abspath(join(base, *paths)))
base_path = normcase(abspath(base))
base_path_len = len(base_path)
# Ensure final_path starts with base_path and that the next character after
# the final path is os.sep (or nothing, in which case final_path must be
# equal to base_path).
if not final_path.startswith(base_path) \
or final_path[base_path_len:base_path_len+1] not in ('', sep):
raise ValueError('the joined path is located outside of the base path'
' component')
return final_path