[Zope-PAS] Re: Authentication caching

[Stefan H. Holek]

Any news?

Let me add that my branch also fixes _extractUserIds which didn't  
handle broken extractors in all scenarios. And it has plenty of new  
tests... ;-)

<http://svn.zope.org/PluggableAuthService/branches/shh-authentication- 
caching/PluggableAuthService.py?rev=69485&r1=69484&r2=69485>

Stefan


On 21. Aug 2006, at 09:52, Stefan H. Holek wrote:

> Sure, take your time (/me holds off, slowly turns blue in face).
>
> The main idea of my branch is to have all caching in PAS, so that  
> individual plugins do not have to concern themselves with  
> ZCacheable. I don't think it makes PAS more clumsy, it's just a few  
> lines after all, but it makes auth plugins easier to write.
>
> Stefan
>
>
> On 19. Aug 2006, at 17:29, Tres Seaver wrote:
>
>> Can you hold off a bit?  I'm travelling and would like to have  
>> time to
>> look at the patch more carefully.  Overall, I *thin* I would like to
>> keep the caching itself out of the framework, because it is  
>> completely
>> irrelevant for lots of plugins, and introduces complexity / overhead.
>>
>> An alternate idea I had was to implement a 'CacheablePluginHelper',
>> which would wrap another plugin, providing caching.  It might be
>> possible to make it generic (like the ScriptablePlugin is).
>
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