[Zope] Authentication from within External Methods

[Chris McDonough]

Marc,

I was about to launch in to a diatribe about "reading documentation" in this
message.  But before I did so I actually read the bit about external methods
in the Zope Book.  You're right.  This part of ZC's primary documentation
vehicle (the Zope Book) is in a terrible state.

That said, you sound pretty stressed out and maybe that contributes to the
shrillness of your message.  Zope isn't for everyone.  It doesn't seem to be
for you.  It sounds like you'd be better off with something from Microsoft.

- C

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc O. Sandlus" <marc@sandlus.de>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Authentication from within External Methods


> Hello again,
>
> FYI
>
> after one day of investigation I found out that Zope calls External
> Methods with two implicit parameters, "self" and "REQUEST". From them I
> could figure out, who the authenticated user is and which roles he has.
>
> Well, if that wasn't obvious...
>
> I am really frustrated now, and would like to stop working with Zope,
> because it's too time-consuming to find out how to do the simplest
> things. During this lost time I could implement a solution without Zope.
> (And yes, at least one will reply: So why don't you do it then? I will,
> my next project will be zopefree)
>
> Regards,
> Marc
>
>
>
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