[Zope3-Users] Principally annotating InternalPrincipals at creation time
Hi all, I'm using a PrincipalFolder to store users who have signed up to a site, and during signup I'd like to ask them for some more information (email address, etc) and store it in a principal annotation. However, PrincipalFolders use IInternalPrincipals, which do not appear to be easily converted to annotatable IPrincipals until after a user has logged in, so I'm at a bit of a loss as to how I can store this metadata at signup. I guess I could log the user in and then ask for the information on the next page, or store the information in the session until the user is logged in and the IPrincipal easily available, but I get the feeling I'm missing something simple - this seems like something people would often want. So, are people doing this, and if so, how? Thanks! ___ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users
Re: [Zope3-Users] Principally annotating InternalPrincipals at creation time
Hello, John and Zope 3 gurus, I wonder if the question reproduced below was answered somewhere. I'm struggling with the same issue: I am using a PrincipalFolder to store InternalPrincipal instances, but I want to annotate them but can't figure out how. Also, I wonder why the IInternalPrincipal does not extend IPrincipal. I may be wrong, but I get the feeling that the name "principal" has been abused to describe two different things in the API: usually a principal is non-persistent object which represents an user during a request, but in the case of the PrincipalFolder, the InternalPrincipal are not those same principals, but rather persistent objects which represent an account that allows a principal of the first kind to log in. Cheers and a happy 2008 to all! -- Luciano On Aug 11, 2007 11:56 PM, John Maddison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using a PrincipalFolder to store users who have signed up to a > site, and during signup I'd like to ask them for some more information > (email address, etc) and store it in a principal annotation. > However, PrincipalFolders use IInternalPrincipals, which do not appear > to be easily converted to annotatable IPrincipals until after a user > has logged in, so I'm at a bit of a loss as to how I can store this > metadata at signup. I guess I could log the user in and then ask for > the information on the next page, or store the information in the > session until the user is logged in and the IPrincipal easily > available, but I get the feeling I'm missing something simple - this > seems like something people would often want. So, are people doing > this, and if so, how? > > Thanks! > ___ > Zope3-users mailing list > Zope3-users@zope.org > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users > ___ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users
Re: [Zope3-Users] Principally annotating InternalPrincipals at creation time
On Jan 1, 2008 10:05 PM, Luciano Ramalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if the question reproduced below was answered somewhere. I'm > struggling with the same issue: I am using a PrincipalFolder to store > InternalPrincipal instances, but I want to annotate them but can't > figure out how. I ended up declaring that InternalPrincipal implements the marker interface IAttributeAnnotatable, and that allowed me to annotate to the InternalPrincipal instances. It works because InternalPrincipal instances reside in the ZODB, but I wonder if it's a good idea. If it's not, then I'd love to see a recipe on how to use the PrincipalAnnotation machinery with InternalPrincipal instances. > Also, I wonder why the IInternalPrincipal does not extend IPrincipal. > I may be wrong, but I get the feeling that the name "principal" has > been abused to describe two different things in the API: usually a > principal is non-persistent object which represents an user during a > request, but in the case of the PrincipalFolder, the InternalPrincipal > are not those same principals, but rather persistent objects which > represent an account that allows a principal of the first kind to log > in. I'm still wondering about this part... Cheers, Luciano ___ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users