# A module containing some utility functions used by the views and uploaders from django.contrib.auth.models import AnonymousUser import shortuuid import six # Get the user associated with the provided request. If we have an anonymous # user object then return None def _get_user(request): upload_user = getattr(request, 'user', None) if isinstance(upload_user, AnonymousUser): upload_user = None return upload_user # Generate a file or upload ID. At present, this is used for generating both # ID types since they both have the same specification. def _get_file_id(): file_id = shortuuid.uuid() return six.ensure_text(file_id)