On Feb 27, 2013, at 5:46 PM, David Avendasora wrote:

> 
> On Feb 28, 2013, at 8:35 AM, Ramsey Gurley <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Feb 27, 2013, at 5:07 PM, David Avendasora wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Feb 28, 2013, at 3:00 AM, Ramsey Gurley <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've looked at a couple ways, but I'm not sure what is the best strategy. 
>>>>> I'm thinking creating a custom D2W Assignment subclass is the way, but 
>>>>> I'm not sure.
>>>> 
>>>> If you aren't storing them, you can probably come up with a decent 
>>>> solution using a single assignment. It would just need some sort of 
>>>> permission manager object to consult. Maybe that comes from the rules or 
>>>> maybe a thread local.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> What I was thinking of is something similar to the QueryDatasourceDelegate 
>>> where you could define a delegate class that would have the logic to filter 
>>> the array of displayPropertyKeys prior to them being returned by the 
>>> D2WContext.
>>> 
>>> Simply create a rule that defines what delegate it should use to filter the 
>>> displayPropertyKeys prior to returning them. The logic of why or how to 
>>> filter is entirely up to the developer - it could be based on user 
>>> preference or permissions triggering it would be controlled by the rule 
>>> system.
>>> 
>>> Dave
>> 
>> What you've described actually exists! It's called an Assignment ;-)
>> 
>> Ramsey
>> 
> 
> 
> Okay, maybe I'm missing a fundamental concept (no shocker there). So how do I 
> tell it to go use the delegate instead of providing a list of keys manually 
> in a rule?
> 
> Dave

With a rule, of course :-)

100: *true* => displayPropertyKeys = "" [DavesAssignment]

Notice there's no value on the rule. There could be, but there doesn't have to 
be. And now all your displayPropertyKeys everywhere will be set by 
DavesAssignment.

Ramsey


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