Fixed #28324 -- Made feedgenerators write feeds with deterministically ordered attributes.

django/core/serializers/xml_serializer.py

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 XML serializer.
 """
 
-from collections import OrderedDict
 from xml.dom import pulldom
 from xml.sax import handler
 from xml.sax.expatreader import ExpatParser as _ExpatParser
@@ -47,7 +46,7 @@ class Serializer(base.Serializer):
             raise base.SerializationError("Non-model object (%s) encountered during serialization" % type(obj))
 
         self.indent(1)
-        attrs = OrderedDict([("model", str(obj._meta))])
+        attrs = {'model': str(obj._meta)}
         if not self.use_natural_primary_keys or not hasattr(obj, 'natural_key'):
             obj_pk = obj.pk
             if obj_pk is not None:
@@ -68,10 +67,10 @@ class Serializer(base.Serializer):
         ManyToManyFields).
         """
         self.indent(2)
-        self.xml.startElement("field", OrderedDict([
-            ("name", field.name),
-            ("type", field.get_internal_type()),
-        ]))
+        self.xml.startElement('field', {
+            'name': field.name,
+            'type': field.get_internal_type(),
+        })
 
         # Get a "string version" of the object's data.
         if getattr(obj, field.name) is not None:
@@ -140,11 +139,11 @@ class Serializer(base.Serializer):
     def _start_relational_field(self, field):
         """Output the <field> element for relational fields."""
         self.indent(2)
-        self.xml.startElement("field", OrderedDict([
-            ("name", field.name),
-            ("rel", field.remote_field.__class__.__name__),
-            ("to", str(field.remote_field.model._meta)),
-        ]))
+        self.xml.startElement('field', {
+            'name': field.name,
+            'rel': field.remote_field.__class__.__name__,
+            'to': str(field.remote_field.model._meta),
+        })
 
 
 class Deserializer(base.Deserializer):

django/utils/xmlutils.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Utilities for XML generation/parsing.
 """
 
 import re
+from collections import OrderedDict
 from xml.sax.saxutils import XMLGenerator
 
 
@@ -26,3 +27,8 @@ class SimplerXMLGenerator(XMLGenerator):
             # See http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-controls
             raise UnserializableContentError("Control characters are not supported in XML 1.0")
         XMLGenerator.characters(self, content)
+
+    def startElement(self, name, attrs):
+        # Sort attrs for a deterministic output.
+        sorted_attrs = OrderedDict(sorted(attrs.items())) if attrs else attrs
+        super().startElement(name, sorted_attrs)

tests/utils_tests/test_feedgenerator.py

@@ -126,6 +126,11 @@ class FeedgeneratorTest(unittest.TestCase):
         feed.add_item('item_title', 'item_link', 'item_description')
         feed.writeString('utf-8')
 
+    def test_deterministic_attribute_order(self):
+        feed = feedgenerator.Atom1Feed('title', '/link/', 'desc')
+        feed_content = feed.writeString('utf-8')
+        self.assertIn('href="/link/" rel="alternate"', feed_content)
+
 
 class FeedgeneratorDBTest(TestCase):