[Zope] user created folders and local owner role problem in 2.1.3

[Tres Seaver]

"Cornelis J. de Brabander" <brabander@fsw.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:

> To: "zope" <zope@zope.org>
> Subject: [Zope] user created folders and local owner role problem in 2.1.3
> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 11:04:02 +0100
> charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> Silence was my part after an ealier effort, so I'll give it another try.
> I have a application for web supported learning, basically a platform where
> teachers and students can exchange information. It runs in zope 2.0.0. Users
> may create documents or folders by means of a dtml-method that wraps
> manage_clone. In version 2.0.0 the user automatically acquires a local role
> of owner in the context the folder or document involved.
> When I was upgrading to zope version 2.1.3 I noticed this automatisme did
> not apply anymore to folders, but only to documents: users are not given the
> local owner role in he context of a folder they create. Bug or feature?
> It is a problem, because what users ar permitted to do depends to a certain
> extent on ownership. Please help me out.
> tia, cb

Ok, from the horse's mouth ("Trust the source, Luke!"):

[/home/tres/Zope2/lib/python/OFS] $ \
cvs diff -u -r Zope-2_0_0-src -r Zope-2_1_3-src ObjectManager.py
Index: ObjectManager.py
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs-repository/Zope2/lib/python/OFS/ObjectManager.py,v
retrieving revision 1.80
retrieving revision 1.82
diff -u -r1.80 -r1.82
--- ObjectManager.py    1999/07/22 19:19:22     1.80
+++ ObjectManager.py    1999/11/04 19:34:20     1.82
@@ -84,9 +84,9 @@
 ##############################################################################
 __doc__="""Object Manager

-$Id: ObjectManager.py,v 1.80 1999/07/22 19:19:22 jim Exp $"""
+$Id: ObjectManager.py,v 1.82 1999/11/04 19:34:20 brian Exp $"""

-__version__='$Revision: 1.80 $'[11:-2]
+__version__='$Revision: 1.82 $'[11:-2]

 import App.Management, Acquisition, App.Undo, Globals, CopySupport, Products
 import os, App.FactoryDispatcher, ts_regex, Products
@@ -230,12 +230,15 @@
         self._setOb(id,object)
         object=self._getOb(id)
         object.manage_afterAdd(object, self)
-        # Try to give user the local role "Owner".
+
+        # Try to give user the local role "Owner", but only if
+        # no local roles have been set on the object yet.
         if hasattr(self, 'REQUEST') and hasattr(object, '__ac_local_roles__'):
-            user=self.REQUEST['AUTHENTICATED_USER']
-            name=user.getUserName()
-            if name != 'Anonymous User':
-                object.manage_setLocalRoles(name, ['Owner'])
+            if object.__ac_local_roles__ is None:
+                user=self.REQUEST['AUTHENTICATED_USER']
+                name=user.getUserName()
+                if name != 'Anonymous User':
+                    object.manage_setLocalRoles(name, ['Owner'])
         return id

     def manage_afterAdd(self, item, container):
@@ -526,8 +529,7 @@
         mtime=self.bobobase_modification_time().timeTime()
         # get owner and group
         owner=group='Zope'
-        for r in self.get_local_roles():
-            user,roles=r
+        for user, roles in self.get_local_roles():
             if 'Owner' in roles:
                 owner=user
                 break

At a guess, the folder that you clone has local roles attached?  I think you
would be best off to just force the ownership yourself after the clone:

  <dtml-let username="AUTHENTICATED_USER.getUserName()">
    <dtml-call "manage_setLocalRoles( username, [ 'Owner' ] )">
  </dtml-let>

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