Hi Carsten, I've entered this here:
http://fedora-commons.org/jira/browse/FCREPO-517 We're talking about this on today's committer call, audio and text of which will be available here: https://fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/FCREPO/2009-07-28+-+Committer+Meeting Thanks, Chris On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:53 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In many cases it would be good to know if an operation is allowed before it > is attempted. Especially when designing a client application that talks to > Fedora it can be quite frustrating for a user to fill in a large form only > to learn when pressing “submit” that he is actually not allowed to perform > this operation. Ideally the client tests this before displaying the form and > disables it (or the submit button) to save the user the pointless effort. > Can we add a policy API which allows users to do so? > > > > It seems that this could be done with minimal effort since all the > functionality is already there. All that’s needed is to expose the > authorization checks as separate web-service calls. > > > > Cheers, > > Carsten > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-commons-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-developers > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Fedora-commons-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-developers
