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Status: New => Triaged
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1521427
Title:
Would like to have owner + ownertype columns rather than owner, group,
institution
Status in Mahara:
Triaged
Bug description:
So for things like views and artefacts we save the owner id, whether
it is user,group,institution id (in this case we'd need to use the
institution id rather than name) + owner type, either
'user','group','institution'.
The reasons FOR this are:
1) We can add a uniqueness constraint on the owner/ownertype as they can't
allow null values
2) We would start using the institution id instead of passing round the name
for better code consistency
3) It would allow easy addition of another ownertype if we wished without
having to add more columns
The reasons AGAINST this are:
1) The use of the owner/group/institution is widely used throughout the
system so changing anything will take a lot of patches to say the least
2) Create problems for third party plugins
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