[p4] Anyone have a way to preview p4 protect updates outside of the P4V admin tool?

Posted on behalf of forum user 'mcru'.

Does anyone know of any existing tooling that lets a user preview changes to the
p4 protects table? Ideally, you feed the tool/script the relevant protect lines
and it generates a list of all paths and files a user can view. I know the P4V
admin tool has this functionality, but I need to allow users who own delegated
repo paths to be able to get a preview of what changes would make to any users
permissions to their delegated path(s). 

I'm pretty sure this would be easy to do using the same logic listed in this
article -   
https://www.perforce.com/blog/preview-permissions-p4vs-administration-tool

The hard part (in my mind anyway) is actually applying the list of rules to a
set of files outputted from p4 files or any other list of files. I don't
fully understand how the p4 protects table checks actually work... multiple
times I've had lines I've applied end up not working or having
unintended consequences. So, I guess clarity on this would really be key.

Any ideas and/or input is greatly appreciated.



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