Igor Stroh wrote:

Hi all,

I don't know if it's the right list to post to, but I have the following problem: I have several objects (documents, folders etc) that are accessible only by a certain user role, this objects are cataloged. Now if I query the catalog the brains of these objects are returned correctly, but to _all_ users that issue a query. That means, users that don't have the permission to "View" or "Access Content Information" can see the brains as well... I tried to filter the result set by converting the brains into real objects (brain.getObject) in an external method (I thought, this way I should be able to exclude unauthorized users by adding the "skip_unauthorized" to the dtml-in), but that doesn't work since there are "brains" that are actually NoBrainer instances...

Does anyone have an idea of how I could solve this problem? Actually I thought this kind of "information hiding" is supported by basic ZCatalog machinery, but now it looks like I'll have to hack a workaround...

Any help greatly appreciated.

Igor, I had exactly the same problem and solved it this way: 1. define a method 'catalog_permission' in the classes of the objects that will be indexed: from AccessControl.PermissionRole import rolesForPermissionOn class someClass(Folder): def catalog_permission(self): """ return: Liste der roles, die die permissions 'View', 'Access Content Information" sowie "view archivDoc" haben """ l1 = rolesForPermissionOn('View', self) if type(l1) == type(''): l1 = [l1, ] l2 = rolesForPermissionOn('Access contents information', self) if type(l2) == type(''): l2 = [l2, ] res = [] for x in l1: if x in l2: res.append(x) return res 2. define a new Catalog class, with a newly defined method searchResults: from Products.ZCatalog.ZCatalog import ZCatalog from AccessControl import getSecurityManager class ACatalog(ZCatalog): def searchResults(self, REQUEST=None, used=None, **kw): """ """ roles = getSecurityManager().getUser().getRoles() if REQUEST is not None: REQUEST['catalog_permission'] = roles elif kw != {}: kw['catalog_permission'] = roles else: self.REQUEST['catalog_permission'] = roles return ZCatalog.searchResults(self, REQUEST, used, **kw) 3. Add a keyword index 'catalog_permission' to the ACatalog instance. (Ok, that could be done automatically in ACatalog.__init__ , but I was too lazy to write that...) A more reliable implemetation should make sure that only those objects are indexed, which define a method catalog_permission. Or Catalog.catalogObject could be overloaded to automatically build the information to be thrown into the catalog_permission index. Abel

Igor Stroh writes:

.... That means, users that don't have the permission to "View" or "Access Content Information" can see the brains as well... You can look how the CMF (Content Management Framework) solves this problem.

Look for "allowedRolesAndUsers" and the implicit query extension for users without special privileges (in the CatalogTool). Dieter