[Zope3-Users] Principally annotating InternalPrincipals at creation time

[Luciano Ramalho]

Hello, John and Zope 3 gurus,

I wonder if the question reproduced below was answered somewhere. I'm
struggling with the same issue: I am using a PrincipalFolder to store
InternalPrincipal instances, but I want to annotate them but can't
figure out how.

Also, I wonder why the IInternalPrincipal does not extend IPrincipal.
I may be wrong, but I get the feeling that the name "principal" has
been abused to describe two different things in the API: usually a
principal is non-persistent object which represents an user during a
request, but in the case of the PrincipalFolder, the InternalPrincipal
are not those same principals, but rather persistent objects which
represent an account that allows a principal of the first kind to log
in.

Cheers and a happy 2008 to all!

--
Luciano

On Aug 11, 2007 11:56 PM, John Maddison <maddisjohn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using a PrincipalFolder to store users who have signed up to a
> site, and during signup I'd like to ask them for some more information
> (email address, etc) and store   it in a principal annotation.
> However, PrincipalFolders use IInternalPrincipals, which do not appear
> to be easily converted to annotatable IPrincipals until after a user
> has logged in, so I'm at a bit of a loss as to how I can store this
> metadata at signup.  I guess I could log the user in and then ask for
> the information on the next page, or store the information in the
> session until the user is logged in and the IPrincipal easily
> available, but I get the feeling I'm missing something simple - this
> seems like something people would often want.  So, are people doing
> this, and if so, how?
>
> Thanks!
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