[Lift] Re: Desiderata. Was: [Lift] RBAC in Lift

2008-09-13 Thread David Pollak
Folks, As I work my way through the 200+ messages related to Lift in my inbox... I agree 100% with Marius here... access control in Snippets is the snippet code responsibility. In SiteMap, you're providing access control on a Page-by-Page level via functions. Those functions are available to

[Lift] Re: Desiderata. Was: [Lift] RBAC in Lift

2008-09-12 Thread Marius
On Sep 12, 5:07 am, Marc Boschma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My current understanding is that Lift is a snippet rather than page > oriented framework. SiteMap focuses on access or not to page level. Well kind of ... snippets are just for generating dynamic markup. > > Thinking about this over

[Lift] Re: Desiderata. Was: [Lift] RBAC in Lift

2008-09-11 Thread Marc Boschma
My current understanding is that Lift is a snippet rather than page oriented framework. SiteMap focuses on access or not to page level. Thinking about this overnight it sounds like we need some way to inform a snippet of who is trying to interact with it and what rights they have is needed.

[Lift] RBAC in Lift

2008-09-07 Thread Charles F. Munat
I'm building a website for a group that wants to have different levels of access to the site. Essentially, there will be five roles, from Admin down to Guest, with each role having access to different parts of the site. Some pages will only be accessible to users with a specific role. For exam