[Zope3-dev] Re: Status of homefolders?

[Joachim Werner]

Lennart Regebro schrieb:
> I agree with Maxs view of member properties being a mess. Zope3 should 
> probably solve this, however. There was earlier talk about annotations 
> of users, I didn't follow that very closely. Maybe the port of PAs into 
> Zope3 touches on this. But if it's done by annotation or by another way, 
> there will be a standard API for setting properties on users.

> There may be no standard way to STORE those properties, though, but some 
> sort of directory (as with CPS) is probably the right way to go.

In many larger setups you'll have an external user and address data 
source (LDAP or an SQL database) in the background. So it's really 
important to think about this issue in terms of a generic user/member 
API, but allow different backend implementations.

E.g. I might get my users and the core address data from LDAP, but want 
to store long-term "session" data (like preferences) on that user. In 
another scenario there is no LDAP server and all the data has to be 
stored within Zope. The "annotations" approach seems to be the most 
interesting way to go for that.

Cheers

Joachim