Also,  is there a way to  turn off caching and force reviewboard  go to the
repository every time?

Thanks,
Vanaja

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Vanaja Narayanaswamy <vanaja...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> >>Files are also not fetched by that user's account. They're fetched using
> the credentials set up when configuring the >>repository.
>
> We know this. That's why we want to check the user's access first and then
> fetch.  I thought the get_file method in myscm.py  can first do the check
> for loggedin user's access in our scm/repo and then fetch if user has
> access.
>
> >>Are your permissions set up per-file, or is it more that they can't
> access certain hierarchies of the tree?
> The access rule can be on a file or on  hierarchies.
>
> Thanks,
> Vanaja
>
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Christian Hammond <chip...@chipx86.com>
> wrote:
>
>> You won't be able to solve this the way you're wanting. We aggressively
>> cache the contents from repositories, and that will happen the first time
>> the file is requested (if not in cache), meaning that if a user has already
>> viewed a diff or posted a change against a given file + revision, it will
>> already be in cache and the SCMTool will not have an ability to weigh in on
>> whether the file can be accessed.
>>
>> Files are also not fetched by that user's account. They're fetched using
>> the credentials set up when configuring the repository.
>>
>> Are your permissions set up per-file, or is it more that they can't
>> access certain hierarchies of the tree?
>>
>> Christian
>>
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>> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Vanaja Narayanaswamy <
>> vanaja...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> To make sure that user has read access(in our scm)  on the file that is
>>> being diffed.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Vanaja
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Christian Hammond <
>>> christ...@beanbaginc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Vanaja,
>>>>
>>>> SCMTools don't have access to the current HTTP request or user, and we
>>>> can't provide it. What do you need the user for?
>>>>
>>>> Christian
>>>>
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>>>> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Vanaja Narayanaswamy <
>>>> vanaja...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> When the user is logged into the reviewboard via the browser, I would
>>>>> like to get user info(loginId) to pass it on to my scmtool.  How do I
>>>>> achieve that in scmtools/myscm.py module?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Vanaja
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