On Dec 26, 7:00 pm, iain duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would just use the TG identity stuff in all honesty. To get only > simple identity working it's really straightforward and works pretty > much out of the box. While using the more powerful features may be > difficult, logging in and protecting some areas is dead easy!
I suppose there are a few questions worth asking: - does a user want the additional tables for groups and permissions, and are these perhaps a minor burden (eg. if writing a very lightweight app, or one without a database)? - is there a pre-existing user table/object that doesn't have Identity? Or perhaps you have an old TG project that didn't use Identity, but need to think about password protecting a few things? Upgrading to Identity from an app that doesn't yet use it doesn't sound trivial to me. - does Identity contain too many fields for your use? (eg. I have an app where you need to enter a password, but no username. I don't think Identity copes with that too well.) - is the default behaviour of redirecting a non-logged in user to a login page what you want (often, it's not), and is the alternative where you protect parts of controllers/templates explicitly any easier to do with Identity than checking a session variable yourself? (Also, a slight wart is that Identity's use of redirects makes my browser think I reached the originally-intended page via a POST request. This alone can be irritating enough at times.) Overall, I find Identity quite monolithic and inflexible. For my current project, I'm lucky in that it just about fits what I want, but I can certainly see why some people would not want to bother. -- Ben Sizer --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
