ibt2/utils.py

"""ibt2 utils

Miscellaneous utilities.

Copyright 2016 Davide Alberani <da@erlug.linux.it>
               RaspiBO <info@raspibo.org>

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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"""

import json
import string
import random
import hashlib
import datetime
from bson.objectid import ObjectId


def hash_password(password, salt=None):
    """Hash a password.

    :param password: the cleartext password
    :type password: str
    :param salt: the optional salt (randomly generated, if None)
    :type salt: str

    :returns: the hashed password
    :rtype: str"""
    if salt is None:
        salt_pool = string.ascii_letters + string.digits
        salt = ''.join(random.choice(salt_pool) for x in range(32))
    pass_and_salt = '%s%s' % (salt, password)
    pass_and_salt = pass_and_salt.encode('utf-8', 'ignore')
    hash_ = hashlib.sha512(pass_and_salt)
    return '$%s$%s' % (salt, hash_.hexdigest())


class ImprovedEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
    """Enhance the default JSON encoder to serialize datetime and ObjectId instances."""
    def default(self, o):
        if isinstance(o, bytes):
            try:
                return o.decode('utf-8')
            except:
                pass
        elif isinstance(o, (datetime.datetime, datetime.date,
                          datetime.time, datetime.timedelta, ObjectId)):
            try:
                return str(o)
            except:
                pass
        elif isinstance(o, set):
            return list(o)
        return json.JSONEncoder.default(self, o)


# Inject our class as the default encoder.
json._default_encoder = ImprovedEncoder()