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+# Copyright (C) University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN.
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+# under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+# License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+# See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+#
+# This program is available from Source Forge: at GeneNetwork Project
+# (sourceforge.net/projects/genenetwork/).
+#
+# Contact Drs. Robert W. Williams and Xiaodong Zhou (2010)
+# at rwilliams@uthsc.edu and xzhou15@uthsc.edu
+#
+#
+#
+# This module is used by GeneNetwork project (www.genenetwork.org)
+#
+# Created by GeneNetwork Core Team 2010/08/10
+#
+# Last updated by GeneNetwork Core Team 2010/10/20
+
+#########################################
+#convert Field storage object to Dict object
+#in order to be able to saved into a session file
+#########################################
+
+class cgiData(dict):
+	'''convert Field storage object to Dict object
+	   Filed storage object cannot be properly dumped	
+	'''
+
+	def __init__(self, field_storage=None):
+
+		if not field_storage:
+			field_storage={}
+			
+		for key in field_storage.keys():
+			temp = field_storage.getlist(key)
+			if len(temp) > 1:
+				temp = map(self.toValue, temp)
+			elif len(temp) == 1:
+				temp = self.toValue(temp[0])
+			else:
+				temp = None
+			self[key]= temp
+	
+	def toValue(self, obj):
+		'''fieldstorge returns different type of objects, \
+			need to convert to string or None'''	
+		try:
+			return obj.value
+		except:
+			return ""
+	
+	def getvalue(self, k, default= None):
+		try:
+			return self[k]
+		except:
+			return default
+
+	getfirst = getvalue
+
+
+
+