I have a treeview where each node has a permission set, similair like NT Security. If a node doesn't have permissions set, they are inherited from the first parent in the "bloodline" who has permissions. (
 
When I expand a level in the treeview, the following happens.
 
- Childs are retrieved from the database (many to many relationships)
- Each child's permission set is retrieved, if no permissions have been set, this lookup continues untill the system found a parentnode with permissions.
 
The problem is the 2nd step. This step executes in a few milliseconds, but once you execute 100 database calls to check for the permissions of each child, you might imagine the delays grow with every lookup. The queries have been optimized already, and run under 1ms but it is the amount of queries in combination with the extensive model causing delays.
 
I was hoping for people with similair issues when working with permission sets on objects. Did you find a way to improve lookups for those permissions?
 
I figured out some options:
- lazy loading, but even then it takes at least one request to create the cache.
- a quick lookup table, specifically for lookup actions. Side effects are that you need some extensive queries and logic to update these tables on each change in permissions, groups, roles, policies, departments, and users.
 
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