[Zope-PAS] Re: Authentication caching

[Tres Seaver]

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Stefan H. Holek wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am in the lucky position of being sponsored to do some PAS work
> (Thanks WU-Wien!). You may see more coming from this direction soon. ;-)
> 
> As a first step I have implemented authentication caching in the
> "gateway" i.e. in _extractUserIds. If you want to have a look, you can
> find the code on the shh-authentication-caching branch.
> 
> <http://svn.zope.org/PluggableAuthService/branches/shh-authentication-caching/>
> 
> <http://svn.zope.org/PluggableAuthService/branches/shh-authentication-caching/PluggableAuthService.py?rev=69485&r1=69484&r2=69485>
> 
> Unless I receive complaints I am going to merge into trunk in a couple
> of days.

Can you hold off a bit?  I'm travelling and would like to have time to
look at the patch more carefully.  Overall, I *thin* I would like to
keep the caching itself out of the framework, because it is completely
irrelevant for lots of plugins, and introduces complexity / overhead.

An alternate idea I had was to implement a 'CacheablePluginHelper',
which would wrap another plugin, providing caching.  It might be
possible to make it generic (like the ScriptablePlugin is).


Tres.
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