Opened 12 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#19340 closed Bug (invalid)

django.forms.Field is not thread-safe

Reported by: anonymous Owned by: nobody
Component: Forms Version: 1.4
Severity: Normal Keywords: thread-safe
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

django.forms.Field has the 'creation_counter' attribute which is incremented when an instance of django.forms.Field (or one of its subclasses) is created. I DO understand that it's a bit unusual to create
forms in the runtime, so this must not be a big issue (or not a bug at all), but it should be documented somewhere.

In [231]: from django import forms

In [232]: forms.Field.creation_counter
Out[232]: 0

In [233]: from threading import Thread

In [234]: def f():
   .....:       for x in xrange(10000):
   .....:               forms.Field()
   .....:      

In [235]: ths = [Thread(target=f) for x in xrange(4)]

In [236]: for t in ths: t.start()

In [237]: for t in ths: t.join()

In [240]: forms.Field.creation_counter
Out[240]: 35409

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Russell Keith-Magee, 12 years ago

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed

I'm not convinced this is a problem in practice. The creation counter is only used to establish field order, so as long as it's monotonically increasing on each form instance, it shouldn't matter than the values aren't sequential.

If you can demonstrate that it's a problem in practice, feel free to reopen.

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