[Zope3-dev] Principal with annotations

Stephan Richter srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu
Fri Sep 24 06:36:57 EDT 2004


On Friday 24 September 2004 02:49, Florian Lindner wrote:
> I've asked this questions to the list already some time before but the
> discussion didn't led to a solution for me. So I try again...  ;-)
>
> I want to create a principal which just works like the normal principal
> but addionally store some information related to it, for example real
> name, email adress, homepage, ... Later the principal should also be
> able to store more complex information, for example lists of references
> to other prinicpals.
>
> What's the best point to start? I don't expect a step-by-step howto
> hiere (also I would like it ;-)) but I need a point to start. Should I
> build a new interface based on ISimplePrincipal and enhance it or use
> PrincipalAnnotation utitlity (how to do that?)?

Read the Zope 3 Book (http://dev.zope.org/Zope3Book) chapter on the Principal 
Annotations Service.

http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/principalannotation.html
http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/principalannotation.pdf

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training


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