Martin Aspeli wrote at 2009-4-12 18:31 +0800: > ... > 3) Change the Permission class in AccessControl so that it tries to >look up an IPermission utility and use the title of that utility as the >permission name, falling back on the current behaviour of using the >passed permission name directly. > >Benefits: Should transparently allow any invocation of the Zope 2 API to >use Zope 3 permission names, allowing us to document that the dotted >permission name is the canonical name everywhere. > >Risks: Performance overhead of doing utility lookups. May result in name >clashes, but since the permission name is a dotted name and the Zope 2 >permission name isn't, I think it's extremely unlikely that this would >actually happen in practice.
You probably should be careful with this: if not done carefully, you may end up doing the utility lookup not once but once at each object on the path from the accessed object to the root. -- Dieter _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
