Hi Jorge, Thanks for the help. I will try out your solution.
- Jesper On Jul 8, 1:45 am, Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 07 July 2008 18:00:47 jlar wrote: > > > Hi, > > > In many cases the User, Group and (binary) Permission structure of the > > identity module is great for my purposes. I do however have a need for > > non-binary permission. For example I would like to allow my users to > > only be allowed to input x > [some user dependent float] into my > > controller methods. Other users will have other limits. I am not sure > > how to solve this problem (my experience with permissions is very > > limited). Do you have any suggestions? > > Use a validator for that. > > The validator should check the user and obtain the limit that he can use on > data. > > This is not something that Identity was supposed to be doing when it was > planned and by putting it in a validator you will end up with a more flexible > design. > > > I could of course add some attributes to the User class (xmin in the > > above example) but that would kind of defeat the purpose of having the > > User, Group, Permission structure. Another option would be to modify > > User, Group and Permission are *NOT* targetting what you want. Authentication > and Authorization to a basic level is the purpose of it. Anything more than > that and you have to code your own classes to handle things. > > > the Permission class (or make a similar class) but I am not sure how I > > should do that. Any pointers? > > There are lots of discussions about that on the archives and also there is > information at the wiki. > > -- > Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
