app/django/contrib/formtools/utils.py
author Lennard de Rijk <ljvderijk@gmail.com>
Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:08:26 +0000
changeset 913 db38e7680d1c
parent 323 ff1a9aa48cfd
permissions -rw-r--r--
Added state property to role model. This can be used when for instance a member has been removed from a club or a when a program has been marked inactive. Certain roles would then be shown on the upcoming roles page marked as previous roles. This would give us the archiving capability that was shown in the mockup. Patch by: Lennard de Rijk Reviewd 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()