[Zope-CMF] change skin based on use property

[alan runyan]

iirc we need to have a hook exposed in ZPublisher.  I believe
there is a similiar thread on PageTemplates where they want a
"pre rendering" of PageTemplate hook exposed to them as well.
It seems this feature is certainly needed.  The question is --
who will implement it ?

~runyaga

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Winkler" <pw_lists@slinkp.com>
To: <Zope-CMF@zope.org>
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope-CMF] change skin based on use property


> On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:33:12AM -0700, sean.upton@uniontrib.com wrote:
> > Yuck; it would really be nice if there was a way to do this within an
access
> > rule, even if some sort of sessioning/cookie/whatever machinery had to
be
> > used?
>
> Hmm. not sure. the REQUEST object, where you normally find cookie data,
> isn't fully constructed until after traversal - so I'm not sure if the
> cookies are available when the access rule is called. It would be
> worth finding out.
>
> If you *can* get at cookie data, that might be a good solution.
>
> > Hopefully there is something more graceful (I really don't want to have
to
> > have to put the heavy lifting inside the skin methods?)...
>
> I agree, it's kinda ugly.
> There was discussion here of a hook that could be used when
> authentication happens, so you'd be able to programmatically do something
> after the usual AccessRules but before the page view is rendered, and
> find out who the user is, etc. at that time.
>
> ... but I don't think it's been implemented. Or maybe I missed it.
>
> > Quick, unrelated question for the list: does anyone know if an external
> > method is going to have a measurably significant performance advantage
over
> > using a TTW Python script for an access rule?
>
> Inquiring minds want to know...
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