[Product-Developers] Re: "factory permissions" for non-Archetype content
Derek Broughton
derek at pointerstop.ca
Wed Aug 5 17:54:48 UTC 2009
Martin Aspeli wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> I've been banging my head on this for a day, and it's time to ask for
>> help.
>>
>> Martin's borg.project has the following code (simplified here) which
>> works fine for Archetypes:
>>
>> portal_types = getToolByName(context, 'portal_types')
>> for fti in portal_types.listTypeInfo():
>> factory = getattr(fti, 'factory', None)
>> product = getattr(fti, 'product', None)
>> dispatcher = getattr(context, 'manage_addProduct', None)
>> product_instance = dispatcher[product]
>> factory_method = getattr(product_instance, factory, None)
>> factory_instance = getattr(factory_method, 'im_self', None)
>> factory_class = factory_instance.__class__
>> role_permission = getattr(factory_class, factory+'__roles__',
>> None)
>>
>> Unfortunately, non-archetype content (borg.project included) doesn't have
>> a "product", and I can't find any way to find a corresponding
>> PermissionRole object for those.
>
> Mmmm.... I'm not sure how this works, but I have a better idea:
> http://plone.org/products/dexterity/documentation/manual/developers-manual
Funny, I was just in the middle of reading that ...
> Dexterity has an explicit add permission in the FTI, which is checked by
> the FTI isContructionAllowed.
>
> That code in borg.project is kind of evil. I don't know a a better way
> to find "the add permission" of an object.
Damn - because the problem I'm having is trying to actually make borg
projects automatically addable to borg projects. Seems like it should be
simple...
> I think you'd need to figure out what five:registerClass or does with
> the add permission you give. Or maybe they're all "Add portal content"
> by default?
I haven't even managed to figure out what the add permission _is_ (could be
"Add portal content").
>
>> [I do wish you'd made "default_addable_types" a utility, Martin...]
>
> I didn't know what a utility was back then, and I'm not sure this is
> even my code. I think it was Tiran. :-)
LOL. I think I need to patch it to make a utility anyway...
--
derek
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