I think a way to go is a pure Python user module API in like the db api. But I agree with your thoughts about a common API and would like to see it.

In all of my apps I have a userManager class that returns a user object. the core API is always the same (so I can use the same secure page and user management screen) but the userManager has different login and useradd / usedel functions.

-Aaron

Kendall Grant Clark wrote:
"chuck" == Chuck Esterbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  chuck> The UserKit torch is sitting idle. Since you're interested in
  chuck> UserKit, I wonder if you might give it a try? Or perhaps someone
  chuck> else on the list is interested. Outside of contracting, I won't
  chuck> be able to contribute in this area in the near future.

This seems like one of those junction points at which it might be prudent
to consider some collaboration with Quixote or Twisted or Skunkweb (to say
nothing of the 3 to 5 "second tier" frameworks). I doubt there's anything
terribly framework specific about a web-app user management API, at least
nothing jumps out at me as obviously framework-specific. Every non-trivial
web app needs a way to manage its users and lots of those management tasks
are generic.

Having such an API would be helpful both for framework implementers and
for users, many of whom use more than one framework. It strikes me as at
least roughly analagous to the DB-API -- modulo some differences,
including that a user API lives higher in the conceptual stack than the
DB-API does.

I don't see any reason why core Webware developers can't take the lead in
inquiring about the possibilities here. While I'm not a core developer, I
would be willing to 1) do a bit of googlework to determine the state of
user management in the Big 5 Python web frameworks; and 2) draft a note to
the other groups a) summarizing the findings of (1), and b) introducing
the idea of a common API.

Kendall Clark



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