Hello, a question about the repoze.who plugin concept: I'm just writing a plugin for authentication against an XML-RPC service, implementing the authenticator and metadata provider interfaces .
Inside the authenticate() method, I make a call to the XML-RPC service to check if the user exists and has entered the right password. That same call already returns all the metadata about the user that I need. What's the best way to store that information so that it can be reused later in the add_metadata() method? I want to avoid making another costly call to the remote service. Simply stuff the information somewhere into the environ or identity dict? The same applies when you have to check a remote database with the sql plugin. Currently, every successful authentication makes two queries, one to check whether the users exist and one to get their data. Wouldn't it be better to handle both tasks with one query? The api with the different plugin types is nice, but it also causes such redundant calls. Or do I overlook something? -- Christoph _______________________________________________ Repoze-dev mailing list Repoze-dev@lists.repoze.org http://lists.repoze.org/listinfo/repoze-dev
