Hi
The app I am about to build is going to have some kind of profile page
for each user. The user will then be able to select other users that
is able to view his/her profile. (Like facebook, I guess)
My question is, how should I store these permissions?
Each user will most likely be giving permission to under 20 other
users.
Solution #1:
Have one model looking something like this:
viewer =user.id
can_view = user.id
And then simply look there to see if one user can view the other users
profile.
Solution #2:
Since it is most likely be less than 20 users per user, then maybe one
could just store it as CSV or a tuple, or something along with the
users profile.
I am thinking this wont be good for the (freakish) users that will
have 200 users with permission, but would it be faster that solution
#1? As that first model would eventually be huge, but does that matter
on GAE?
This is my first app, so I am still thinking like I am developing for
en RDBM backend so that is why I am asking here.
So to recap. 1st solution is more elegant in term of scaling
permissions per user, but creates a huge datapile.
The other solution solves this, but creates problems for the few users
that will have more than normal amount of permitted "friends"
Of course if you have an even better solution, then by all means,
share it :)
Many thanks in advance.
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