I have to look at this. I want something like this thanx Jason --Siva Jagadeesan
-----Original Message----- From: Jason Lea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 5:05 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Actions based on Role Jagadeesan,Sivakumar wrote: > I have web application where users could of three types (Roles) > > 1) Basic User > 2) Silver User > 3) Gold User > > According to Type / Role of user some actions could be performed or not > performed. > > I could set in my stuts-config.xml, the role based access in Action Element > > I am having my own authentication System that uses the database . The User > table has the userName and also the Role. > > I am not sure how could I create a Role that the Action is expecting , if I > am using my own authentication "Struts in Action", ch 9, pg 260-261 9.2.2 ProcessRoles This shows how you can override the processRoles() method of RequestProcessor. It provides you with the request, response and action mapping. So you can get the roles in the struts-config.xml for the Action using mapping.getRoleNames(). You can the check that the user has one of the roles and return true or false. Jason Lea --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
