def value_from_datadict()

in pulseapi/utility/form_fields.py [0:0]

• 9 lines of code
• 6 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    def value_from_datadict(self, data, files, name):
        value = data.get(name)
        # If the checkbox was unchecked, the value of the temporary checkbox is None
        if value is None:
            return value

        # Checks if the checkbox was checked and it already had a uuid assigned to it, so that we don't
        # regenerate a new uuid on saving an instance where the checkbox wasn't modified
        try:
            value = uuid.UUID(value)

        # If the checkbox was changed from unchecked to checked, the value will not be an existing uuid (in the
        # current django version the value is on) so we need to generate a new uuid for this input.
        except ValueError:
            value = uuid.uuid4()

        return value