AW: [Zope3-dev] Pluggableauth / IPrincipalSource interface proposal

[Roger ineichen]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> Betreff: Re: [Zope3-dev] Pluggableauth / IPrincipalSource 
> interface proposal
> 
> 
> Roger ineichen wrote:
> > Hi toghether,
> > 
> > I think there are some methods in the interface IPrincipalSource 
> > missing.
> > 
> > We have to wo methods for to get the principal or a list of 
> > principals.
> > 
> > ----
> > def getPrincipal(id):
> > def getPrincipals(name):
> > ----
> > 
> > The pluggableauth service is a local service and there 
> should be also 
> > a method for to add principals.
> > 
> > Or is it a readonly source for principals?
> 
> I thought we discussed this before.
> 
> A principal source need not support management of principals. 
> For example, a principal source may be a front end to an 
> external user-managerment system, which provides it's own 
> user management.
> 
> IPrincipalSource is the interface used by the pluggable auth 
> service. The pluggable auth service doesn't care if 
> principals are managed or not.  It just needs to get 
> principal information.
> 
> > If so should we add a IWritePrincipalSource interface as
> > another base interface?
> 
> An interface for managing principals is likely to vary from 
> principal source to principal source.  I don;t think a 
> standard write interface would be useful.
> 
> > I propose to add a method setPrincipal and deletePrincipal
> > to the IPrincipalSource interface. 
> 
> No. Don't do that.
> 
> Jim

Ok, thanks

Philip J.Eby point me also to this and told to
use a own IPrincipalManager interface where we can
support the management functions.

Regards
Roger