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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