Thanks for the responses.
Mike is right, I should be thinking of _q_traverse.
[I know the bit about the XML/XSLT seemed non-germane, but it implies
mapping URI's to the filesystem is inappropriate if you wish to have a
speedy application. (Carlo Contadini's mod_xslt apache module is coming
close, but it is not fully Apache 2 compatible yet and doesn't cache
stylesheets yet, which led me to Quixote/libxml2/libxslt).]
I had been thinking of something (not really Python code yet) along the
lines of:
class UserRoleBaseClass
class BossClass(UserRoleBaseClass)
def q_traverse(self,path)
def hireEmployee
def fireEmployee
def praiseEmployee
def reprimandEmployee
....and...
class myDirectory
def _q_index
def q_traverse(self,path)
if session.user_role:
return session.user_role._q_lookup
Anyone foresee a problem with this?
-al
Al Pacifico
Seattle, WA
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Orr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 9:13 PM
To: Al Pacifico
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Quixote-users] "Per-user" polymorphism -- newbie question
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Al Pacifico wrote:
>
>What I'm thinking of:
>I'd like to make my content served by Quixote essentially polymorphic,
>determined by the role the user takes. This points me in the direction of
>subclassing a base class for each role. I imagine q_lookup() would call a
>method within a class determined by the client's role.
>
>
If you need _q_lookup anyway. If you're just using it for permission
checking, ._q_traverse would be more appropriate. But if the component
names have to be calculated from the permissions, or there are so many
names that having a separate method for each would be
difficult/impossible, ._q_lookup would be appropriate.
/foo/bar -- Regular method.
/articles/1234 -- ._q_lookup (one catchall component, possibly
returning a sub-Directory)
/showdate/2005/08/11 -- ._q_traverse (several catchall components
taken as a unit)
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