PasswordField ideas

[mkosler]

So I am newish to Python, Mongoengine, and web development in general, so if this can already be done rather easily, then I'd appreciate the help.

Like most, I have a User model with username and password fields, currently both StringFields. I want to salt/hash my passwords as they go in the database, and as far as I can tell, the only way I can do that currently is by calling some function in the controller portion of my web app to hash/salt my password before it gets put into the database. Which can work fine as long as I remember to do so.

But if I want to access my DB via the shell, and add in a few test Users, or perform some administrative work on that end? If I try to use User.create(), I will likely forget to add the hashing to the password, and then I'll likely need to go back in and change that later.

It would be nice if there was a PasswordField(), or at least parameter on StringField where I can provide a setter function for that field, so I know for certain every time that the field will be hashed/salted.

[dillongreen]

There's no PasswordField (yet) but if you're interested in some code take a look at the mongoengine rework of django-registration https://github.com/lig/django-registration-me/blob/master/registration/documents.py (see the salt part in create_user()).

[noQ]

Hi,

Please, check "PasswordField and IpAddressField"

[rozza]

See: #542