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import re
import itertools

_HTML_TYPES = ('text/html', 'application/xhtml+xml')    

_SUPPORTED_TRANSFORMS = ['PUT', 'DELETE']

_FORM_RE = re.compile(r'((<form\W[^>]*\bmethod=(\'|"|))(%s)((\'|"|)\b[^>]*>))' % '|'.join(_SUPPORTED_TRANSFORMS), re.IGNORECASE)

_MIDDLEWARE_KEY = 'method_middleware_transform'
 
class HttpMethodsMiddleware(object):
    def process_request(self, request):
        if request.POST and request.POST.has_key(_MIDDLEWARE_KEY):
            if request.POST[_MIDDLEWARE_KEY].upper() in _SUPPORTED_TRANSFORMS:
                request.method = request.POST[_MIDDLEWARE_KEY]
        return None
           
    def process_response(self, request, response):
        if response['Content-Type'].split(';')[0] in _HTML_TYPES:
            # ensure we don't add the 'id' attribute twice (HTML validity)
            idattributes = itertools.chain(("id='" + _MIDDLEWARE_KEY + "'",), 
                                            itertools.repeat(''))
            def add_transform_field(match):
                """Returns the matched <form> tag with a modified method and
                the added <input> element"""
                return match.group(2) + "POST" + match.group(5) + \
                "<div style='display:none;'>" + \
                "<input type='hidden' " + idattributes.next() + \
                " name='" + _MIDDLEWARE_KEY + "' value='" + \
                match.group(4).upper() + "' /></div>"

            # Modify any POST forms
            response.content = _FORM_RE.sub(add_transform_field, response.content)
        return response