On Oct 7, 2005, at 8:04 PM, David Binger wrote:
Roger and I have, however, just completed a revision of the permission
representation that eliminates the Admin classes completely.
Permissions are still "granted" to users by other objects, but the
record of granted permissions is kept on the user objects themselves,
rather than on the other, PermissionManager, instances.
We've eliminated completely the "indirect" permissions (such as
A grants 'foo' to B if C grants 'boo' to B) because these
seem to confuse people and are seldom used on our applications.
The Permission editing UI is much easier to understand now.
I expect that we will release this pretty soon, especially
if others are interested in it. We'll include the function
we used to convert our databases to the revised representation.
How does it handle permissions that depend on other things, such as
whether a user has subscribed for a given service and that subscription
has not yet run out?
I'd be interested to understand how you have modeled it now. I do not
need any conversion utilities... looking at the code (and examples...
;-) would be very much appreciated.
mario
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