[Zope-dev] has_role vs. hasRole

[Stefane Fermigier]

Hi,

a developer who's working with me has been bitten by the following fact
today, one year after me.

There are two methods on objects BasicUser.

One is called "has_role" and has the following docstring:

"""Check to see if a user has a given role or roles."""

The other one is called hasRole, is an alias on another method that's
called "allowed" and has the following docstring:

"""Check whether the user has access to object, assuming that
object.__roles__ is the given roles."""

(The Zope Book doesn't say anything on "has_role" (why?) but says about
"hasRole":

hasRole(object, roles) -- Return a value that is true if the user has the=
 given
roles on the given object and return false otherwise.)

I understand that those two methods have differents signatures and differ=
ent
uses, but I think that the names are too similar to not induce confusion.

	S.

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