[Zope3-dev] How to get Principals Roles? Owner-Role?

[Stephan Richter]

On Saturday 14 June 2003 16:12, Administrator wrote:
> Hi Again!
>
> How do I get the roles of a given principal?
>
> This code, I have stolen from NewsSite doesnt work for me, because a
> Principal doesn't have any methode getRoles()::
>
> 	authsvc = getService(self.context, Authentication)
>         authsvc.authenticate(self.request)
>         principal = getSecurityManager().getPrincipal()
>         return {'id' : principal.getId(),
>                 'title' : principal.getTitle(),
>                 'roles' : principal.getRoles()
>                }
>
> I had a look through Zopes Sources, and found: only User has such a
> methode. How do I get Roles for a Principal, or how do I get a User
> instead of a Principal?

The request has a 'user' attribute, which will give you all the desired 
information.

> Is there such a thing as a role Owner or Creator for an object, so that
> the creator may have some special rights, others don't have?

I am not sure whether this is implemented already.

Regards,
Stephan
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