I'm trying to figure out the best[*] way to validate Chained actions
at various points along the action chain. By validate, I mean "check
if the action should proceed or bomb out." Validation is not the
same as authentication; I may be logged in but I may not have
permissions to do certain things. It may also mean proceeding is not
possible because there is some bad data introduced in one of the
links. Let's take a simple chain where I want to check whether or
not a user can perform basic CRUD type things on our data.
Given two paths:
/bigthing/<id>
/bigthing/<id>/edit
I was building this chain as:
load-bigthing-data -> check_read -> view
-> check_update -> edit
Now this gets convoluted when I want to act on sub part of bigthing.
Say we have action paths that resemble something like:
/bigthing/<id>/smallthing/<id_2>
/bigthing/<id>/smallthing/<id_2>/edit
So presumably, I'd try to chain like:
load-bigthing-data -> check_read -> load-smallthing-data -> view
(that's ok)
->
check_update -> edit (bad)
check_update is chained between check_read and edit, so I either need
to create a new (duplicated) check_update for smallthing edit or
preferably come up with something better.
I wasn't very happy with the permissions validation being wedged in
as a link in this action chain. I think a better solution might be
to use attributes and custom Actions, but I'm still trying to wrap my
head around that possibility. The best solution would bomb out
before doing any more processing in further actions (i.e. doing it as
part of an 'end' action is not preferable).
Thoughts?
thanks,
Micah
[*] Best = laziest to code + cleanest to extent + easiest to understand
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