I decided to try writing a generic array converter as a middleware:
import re
class ParamsMiddleware:
patt = re.compile("^([a-zA-Z_]\w*)\[\(d*)\]$")
LARGE_INT = 2**30
def process_request(self, request):
if(request.POST):
post = request.POST.copy()
new_vals = {}
for name, value in post.items():
match =
ParamsMiddleware.patt.match(name)
if not match:
continue
value = post[name]
del post.data[name]
new_name = match.group(1)
try:
idx = int(match.group(2))
except ValueError:
# just append it to the end
# se use the largest number for
sorting
idx =
ParamsMiddleware.LARGE_INT
vals = new_vals.setdefault(new_name,
[])
vals.append((idx, value))
if(new_vals):
for name, vals in new_vals.items():
vals.sort(key=lambda x: x[0])
post[name] = [x[1] for x in
vals]
post._mutable = False
request._post = post
return None
