[Zope-dev] Reference to a user

[Chris Withers]

Brian Lloyd wrote:
> You might want to look at the 'ownerInfo' method in
> lib/python/AccessControl/Owned.py. That produces a
> fully qualified 'path' to identify a user. It probably
> should be made an interface on the user object itself
> (it probably was done this way initially to avoid forcing
> authors of other user sources to implement a new method
> or be broken).
> 
> Brian Lloyd        brian@digicool.com
> Software Engineer  540.371.6909
> Digital Creations  http://www.digicool.com

So, the following code (in a python product ;-) should get me a
persistent reference to the user that I can store, say, in an SQL
database:

from AccessControl import getSecurityManager,Owned

the_current_user_path = Owned.ownerInfo(getSecurityManager().getUser())

Which leaves me with one other question ;-)

How do I turn the_current_user_path into a User object which I can use
in the following:

print the_user.getUserName()
print the_user.getRoles(an_object)

cheers,

Chris