#15031: I need an alternate ID field with built in validation. ---------------------------+------------------------------------------------ Reporter: rcfeldmann | Owner: nobody Status: new | Milestone: Component: Uncategorized | Version: 1.2 Keywords: | Stage: Unreviewed Has_patch: 0 | ---------------------------+------------------------------------------------ I need users to enter an ID to access other users accounts. I do not want to rely only on the default sequential ID as it would be too easy for an incorrect entry to bring up a different user. Also malicious users can just sit and keep adding/subtacting one to every number to determine my entire user directory.
I would like to add two digits to the end of the ID to make an extended ID. The first part will be the core (django's default sequential number), concatenated with a digit that is calculated from the core's digits, concatenated again with a digit that is calculated from the previous two digits. Example would be user 00000435 would become user 0000043527. (4+3+5=12 so just use the last digit of 2, 5+2=7 again using last digit if it were > 9) I was thinking I just need to have an extra field in my database. So I would have ID and ID-Ext and make it appear to users as just one big ID. But here is the trouble. 1) How do I get this to be calculated automatically when a new user is added? 2) How do I get the URLs looking nice? Without the extension, it would be "site/users/00000435/", but I want them to enter "site/users/0000043527/". Another benefit of this is that my site looks a little more professional without the problem of convincing people to add them to my site seeing their user ID as 00000005 letting them know I only have 4 other users at that point. Instead they see 0000000550. -- Ticket URL: <http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/15031> Django <http://code.djangoproject.com/> The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django updates" group. To post to this group, send email to django-upda...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-updates+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-updates?hl=en.
