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# IVLE - Informatics Virtual Learning Environment
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# Copyright (C) 2007-2008 The University of Melbourne
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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# Code to talk to the PostgreSQL database.
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# (This is the Data Access Layer).
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# All DB code should be in this module to ensure portability if we want to
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# change the DB implementation.
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# This means no SQL strings should be outside of this module. Add functions
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# here to perform the activities needed, and place the SQL code for those
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# CAUTION to editors of this module.
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# All string inputs must be sanitized by calling _escape before being
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# formatted into an SQL query string.
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"""Wrapper around pg.escape_string. Escapes the string for use in SQL, and
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also quotes it to make sure that every string used in a query is quoted.
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If str is None, returns "NULL", which is unescaped and thus a valid SQL
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# "E'" is postgres's way of making "escape" strings.
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# Such strings allow backslashes to escape things. Since escape_string
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# converts a single backslash into two backslashes, it needs to be fed
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# Ref: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html
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# WARNING: PostgreSQL-specific code
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return "E'" + pg.escape_string(str) + "'"
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def _passhash(password):
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return md5.md5(password).hexdigest()
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class DBException(Exception):
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"""A DBException is for bad conditions in the database or bad input to
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these methods. If Postgres throws an exception it does not get rebadged.
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This is only for additional exceptions."""
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"""An IVLE database object. This object provides an interface to
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interacting with the IVLE database without using any external SQL.
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Most methods of this class have an optional dry argument. If true, they
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will return the SQL query string and NOT actually execute it. (For
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Methods may throw db.DBException, or any of the pg exceptions as well.
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(In general, be prepared to catch exceptions!)
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"""Connects to the database and creates a DB object.
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Takes no parameters - gets all the DB info from the configuration."""
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self.db = pg.connect(dbname=conf.db_dbname, host=conf.db_host,
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port=conf.db_port, user=conf.db_user, passwd=conf.db_password)
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# USER MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS #
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def create_user(self, login, password, unixid, email, nick, fullname,
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rolenm, studentid, dry=False):
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"""Creates a user login entry in the database.
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Arguments are the same as those in the "login" table of the schema.
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The exception is "password", which is a cleartext password. makeuser
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will hash the password.
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Also "state" is not given explicitly; it is implicitly set to
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Raises an exception if the user already exists.
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passhash = _passhash(password)
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query = ("INSERT INTO login (login, passhash, state, unixid, email, "
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"nick, fullname, rolenm, studentid) VALUES "
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"(%s, %s, 'no_agreement', %d, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s);" %
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(_escape(login), _escape(passhash), unixid, _escape(email),
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_escape(nick), _escape(fullname), _escape(rolenm),
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def update_user(self, login, password=None, state=None, email=None,
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nick=None, fullname=None, rolenm=None, dry=False):
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"""Updates fields of a particular user. login is the name of the user
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to update. The other arguments are optional fields which may be
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modified. If None or omitted, they do not get modified. login and
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studentid may not be modified.
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Note that no checking is done. It is expected this function is called
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by a trusted source. In particular, it allows the password to be
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changed without knowing the old password. The caller should check
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that the user knows the existing password before calling this function
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# Make a list of SQL fragments of the form "field = 'new value'"
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# These fragments are ALREADY-ESCAPED
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if password is not None:
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setlist.append("passhash = " + _escape(_passhash(password)))
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if state is not None:
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setlist.append("state = " + _escape(state))
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if email is not None:
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setlist.append("email = " + _escape(email))
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setlist.append("nick = " + _escape(nick))
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if fullname is not None:
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setlist.append("fullname = " + _escape(fullname))
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if rolenm is not None:
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setlist.append("rolenm = " + _escape(rolenm))
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if len(setlist) == 0:
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# Join the fragments into a comma-separated string
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setstring = ', '.join(setlist)
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# Build the whole query as an UPDATE statement
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query = ("UPDATE login SET %s WHERE login = %s;"
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% (setstring, _escape(login)))
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def delete_user(self, login, dry=False):
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"""Deletes a user login entry from the database."""
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query = "DELETE FROM login WHERE login = %s;" % _escape(login)
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def get_user(self, login, dry=False):
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"""Given a login, returns a dictionary of the user's DB fields,
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excluding the passhash field.
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Raises a DBException if the login is not found in the DB.
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query = ("SELECT login, state, unixid, email, nick, fullname, "
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"rolenm, studentid FROM login WHERE login = %s;" % _escape(login))
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result = self.db.query(query)
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# Expecting exactly one
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if result.ntuples() != 1:
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# It should not be possible for ntuples to be greater than 1
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assert (result.ntuples() < 1)
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raise DBException("get_user: No user with that login name")
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# Return as a dictionary
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return result.dictresult()[0]
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def get_users(self, dry=False):
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"""Returns a list of all users. The list elements are a dictionary of
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the user's DB fields, excluding the passhash field.
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query = ("SELECT login, state, unixid, email, nick, fullname, "
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"rolenm, studentid FROM login")
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return self.db.query(query).dictresult()
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def user_authenticate(self, login, password, dry=False):
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"""Performs a password authentication on a user. Returns True if
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"password" is the correct password for the given login, False
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otherwise. "password" is cleartext.
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Also returns False if the login does not exist (so if you want to
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differentiate these cases, use get_user and catch an exception).
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query = ("SELECT login FROM login "
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"WHERE login = '%s' AND passhash = %s;"
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% (login, _escape(_passhash(password))))
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result = self.db.query(query)
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# If one row was returned, succeed.
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# Otherwise, fail to authenticate.
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return result.ntuples() == 1
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"""Close the DB connection. Do not call any other functions after
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this. (The behaviour of doing so is undefined).