Cast all follow name data to string. Should protect against setting non string...

Cast all follow name data to string. Should protect against setting non string data types as names in follower and following

hive/indexer/follow.py

 """Handles follow operations."""
 
 import logging
+<<<<<<< HEAD
+=======
+from time import perf_counter as perf
+from json import dumps
+>>>>>>> Cast all follow name data to string. Should protect against setting non string data types as names in follower and following
 
 from funcy.seqs import first
 from hive.db.adapter import Db
@@ -82,6 +87,15 @@ class Follow(DbAdapterHolder):
             return None
 
         op['following'] = op['following'] if isinstance(op['following'], list) else [op['following']]
+        
+        # additional layer of protection against putting complex data types as user names
+        as_str = []
+        for following in op['following']:
+            if isinstance(following, list) or isinstance(following, dict):
+                as_str.append(dumps(following))
+            else:
+                as_str.append(str(following))
+        op['following'] = as_str
 
         # mimic original behaviour
         # if following name does not exist do not process it: basically equal to drop op for single following entry

mock_data/block_data/follow_op/mock_block_data_follow.json

@@ -453,6 +453,72 @@
               "id": "follow",
               "json": "[\"follow\",{\"follower\":\"tester1\",\"following\":[\"tester7\", \"<script>alert('hello world');</script>\"],\"what\":[\"blog\"]}]"
             }
+          },
+          {
+            "type": "custom_json_operation",
+            "value": {
+              "required_auths": [],
+              "required_posting_auths": [
+                "{\"tester1\":\"tester1\"}"
+              ],
+              "id": "follow",
+              "json": "[\"follow\",{\"follower\":{\"tester1\":\"tester1\"},\"following\":{\"tester3\":\"tester4\"},\"what\":[\"blog\"]}]"
+            }
+          },
+          {
+            "type": "custom_json_operation",
+            "value": {
+              "required_auths": [],
+              "required_posting_auths": [
+                "tester1"
+              ],
+              "id": "follow",
+              "json": "[\"follow\",{\"follower\":\"tester1\",\"following\":{\"tester3\":\"tester4\"},\"what\":[\"blog\"]}]"
+            }
+          },
+          {
+            "type": "custom_json_operation",
+            "value": {
+              "required_auths": [],
+              "required_posting_auths": [
+                "tester1"
+              ],
+              "id": "follow",
+              "json": "[\"follow\",{\"follower\":\"tester1\",\"following\":[\"tester3\", [\"tester4\"]],\"what\":[\"blog\"]}]"
+            }
+          },
+          {
+            "type": "custom_json_operation",
+            "value": {
+              "required_auths": [],
+              "required_posting_auths": [
+                "tester1"
+              ],
+              "id": "follow",
+              "json": "[\"follow\",{\"follower\":[\"tester1\"],\"following\":[\"tester3\", [\"tester4\"]],\"what\":[\"blog\"]}]"
+            }
+          },
+          {
+            "type": "custom_json_operation",
+            "value": {
+              "required_auths": [],
+              "required_posting_auths": [
+                "[\"tester1\"]"
+              ],
+              "id": "follow",
+              "json": "[\"follow\",{\"follower\":[\"tester1\"],\"following\":[\"tester3\", {\"tester4\":\"tester5\"}],\"what\":[\"blog\"]}]"
+            }
+          },
+          {
+            "type": "custom_json_operation",
+            "value": {
+              "required_auths": [],
+              "required_posting_auths": [
+                "tester1"
+              ],
+              "id": "follow",
+              "json": "[\"follow\",{\"follower\":\"tester1\",\"following\":[\"tester3\", {\"tester4\":\"tester5\"}],\"what\":[\"blog\"]}]"
+            }
           }
         ]
       }