[Grok-dev] Re: defining permissions in a module

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Jan-Wijbrand Kolman wrote:
>> But at least now you know of this limitation  - or are there actullay
>> better ways to keep permissions in a central place?
> 
> What you could do as a workaround is to explicitely grok the
> permission module from the __init__.py of you application...
> 
> This *does* work, but still feel ugly as in fact the permissions will
> get registered twice. In practice this cannot really hurt, but, well,
> feels ugly :-)

How about allow modules to say that they depend on other modules being 
grokked first, e.g.::

   from myapp import permissions

   grok.depends(permissions)

   class MyView(grok.View):
       grok.require(permissions.DISPLAY_VIEW)


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