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# This file is part of CubicWeb.

#

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from cubicweb.web.views.ajaxcontroller import ajaxfunc

def _recursive_replace_stream_by_content(tree):

    """ Search for streams (i.e. object that have a 'read' method) in a tree

    (which branches are lists or tuples), and substitute them by their content,

    leaving other leafs identical. A copy of the tree with only lists as

    branches is returned.

    """

    if not isinstance(tree, (list, tuple)):

        if hasattr(tree, 'read'):

            return tree.read()

        return tree

    else:

        return [_recursive_replace_stream_by_content(value)

                for value in tree]            

@ajaxfunc(output_type='json')

def fileupload(self):

    """ Return a json copy of the web request formin which uploaded files

    are read and their content substitute the received streams.

    """

    try:

        result_dict = {}

        for key, value in self._cw.form.iteritems():

            result_dict[key] = _recursive_replace_stream_by_content(value)

        return result_dict

    except Exception, ex:

        import traceback as tb

        tb.print_exc(ex)