[Zope3-dev] Re: Status of homefolders?

[Stephan Richter]

On Thursday 09 December 2004 06:38, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> 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.

Zope 3 has a general annotations mechanism. Principal data is stored in 
principal annotations. You can put whatever data you like in there. Also, 
since a principal is created every time you authenticate, you pull up his/her 
relevant data by listening to the PrincipalCreatedEvent. 

Zope poses no restrictions on the data you can store and where to store it. It 
only requires a principal to have an id and an optional title and 
description. Not even the login information is directly handled by the 
principal.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
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