Re: ContactAdmin misnomer?

On Oct 7, 2005, at 2:42 PM, mario ruggier wrote:
>
> I'd be interested to understand how you have modeled it now. I do  
> not need any conversion utilities... looking at the code (and  
> examples... ;-) would be very much appreciated.

# PersistentSet is a new durus type.
# string is a new spec that includes unicodes and ascii strs.

class Permissions (PersistentDict):

     data_is = {string:sequence(either(Persistent, True),  
PersistentSet)}

     def grant(self, permission, granter):
         require(permission, string)
         require(granter, either(Persistent, True))
         if permission not in self:
             self[permission] = PersistentSet([granter])
         else:
             self[permission].add(granter)

     def ungrant(self, permission, granter):
         require(permission, string)
         require(granter, either(Persistent, True))
         if self.is_granted(permission, granter):
             self.data[permission].remove(granter)
             if len(self.data[permission]) == 0:
                 del self.data[permission]

     def is_granted(self, permission, granter):
         return granter in self.get(permission, [])

class DulcineaUser(DulcineaPersistent):

     global_permissions = {
         "act-as":
             "Allow to act as another user.",
         "create-users":
             "Allow the creation of other users.",
         "manage-permissions":
             "Allow changing of permissions.",
         "staff":
             "Is a member of the staff",
         "system":
             "Allow to do things normally done by the software system.",
         }

     permissions_is = Permissions

     ...

     def is_admin(self):
         return self.is_granted('staff')

     def is_granted(self, permission, granter=True):
         return self.get_permissions().is_granted(permission, granter)