[Zope] RE: What method do I use to check access?

Thu, 13 May 1999 13:28:03 +1000

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martijn Pieters [mailto:mj@antraciet.nl]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 10:23 PM
> To: Jay, Dylan; 'Jason Spisak'; zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] RE: What method do I use to check access?
> 
> 
> At 01:28 11/05/99 , Jay, Dylan wrote:
> > > Jay,
> > >
> > > Try <!--#if "AUTHENTICATED_USER.has_role('foo')"-->.  There was an
> > > excellent posting in the archives about all the 
> possibilities with the
> > > user object.  Also read the files in the AccessControl 
> folder inside
> > > Zope/lib/python.
> >
> >the has_role method I already use and is not convienient as 
> it means I have
> >to hard code the roles.
> >I've looked in AccessControl and only come across
> >def allowed(self,parent,roles=None):
> >but was unsuccessful in getting it to do what I want.
> >
> >I will look for that email in the archives.
> 
> AUTHENTICATED_USER.allowed won't do what you want, I think. A now 
> deprecated method that is now replaced by has_role was 
> nothing more than an 
> alias to the allowed() method, so you cannot get any (or much) more 
> information from allowed() than you can get from has_role().
> 
> Explain to us what you want to do.

I want a method such that 

or something similar.