On 9/8/07, Joshua 'jag' Ginsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So at my work we developed an app to provide object-level permissions. > Ideally, we could ask a User object if it has permission on a certain object > via a method in that User object, but absent hacking the User object, that's > not going to happen. I can subclass User and add the methods I want -- it > will walk and quack like a User. But then I also have to rewrite get_user() > so that it returns a ObjectPermissionAwareUser instead of a User. I have to > rewrite authenticate() as well. And I have to check the middleware to make > sure it uses get_user() instead of returning a user itself.
For the record, when the developers ask you what *actual problem* you're trying to solve, this paragraph is what they were asking for. It generally helps to understand what you're trying to say, if we can see exactly what you're facing, and how hard it is to get there. -Gul --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
