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| author | Chris McDonough <chrism@agendaless.com> | 2008-09-28 02:17:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Chris McDonough <chrism@agendaless.com> | 2008-09-28 02:17:36 +0000 |
| commit | cbdc36976c18a0812f921ee3b7b92ed2dd823ed0 (patch) | |
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Features
- A ``repoze.bfg.location`` API module was added.
Backwards incompatibilities
- Applications must now use the ``repoze.bfg.interfaces.ILocation``
interface rather than ``zope.location.interfaces.ILocation`` to
represent that a model object is "location-aware". We've removed
a dependency on ``zope.location`` for cleanliness purposes: as
new versions of zope libraries are released which have improved
dependency information, getting rid of our dependence on
``zope.location`` will prevent a newly installed repoze.bfg
application from requiring the ``zope.security``, egg, which not
truly used at all in a "stock" repoze.bfg setup. These
dependencies are still required by the stack at this time; this
is purely a futureproofing move.
The security and model documentation for previous versions of
``repoze.bfg`` recommended using the
``zope.location.interfaces.ILocation`` interface to represent
that a model object is "location-aware". This documentation has
been changed to reflect that this interface should now be
imported from ``repoze.bfg.interfaces.ILocation`` instead.
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diff --git a/docs/narr/security.rst b/docs/narr/security.rst index 48c88cbde..76f488f43 100644 --- a/docs/narr/security.rst +++ b/docs/narr/security.rst @@ -84,19 +84,17 @@ class: from repoze.bfg.security import Everyone from repoze.bfg.security import Allow - from zope.location.interfaces import ILocation - from zope.location.location import Location class IBlog(Interface): pass - class Blog(dict, Location): + class Blog(dict): __acl__ = [ (Allow, Everyone, 'view'), (Allow, 'group:editors', 'add'), (Allow, 'group:editors', 'edit'), ] - implements(IBlog, ILocation) + implements(IBlog) The above ACL indicates that the ``Everyone`` principal (a special system-defined principal indicating, literally, everyone) is allowed @@ -128,26 +126,44 @@ Location-Awareness ------------------ In order to allow the security machinery to perform ACL inheritance, -model objects should provide *location-awareness*. +model objects must provide *location-awareness*. Providing +location-awareness means two things: the root object in the graph must +have a ``_name__`` and a ``__parent__`` attribute and the root object +must be declared to implement the ``repoze.bfg.interfaces.ILocation`` +interface. For example: -Objects have parents when they define an ``__parent__`` attribute -which points at their parent object. The root object's ``__parent__`` -is ``None``. An object with a ``__parent__`` attribute and a -``__name__`` attribute is said to be *location-aware*. +.. code-block:: + :linenos: + + from repoze.bfg.interfaces import ILocation + from zope.interface import implements + + class Blog(object): + implements(ILocation) + __name__ = '' + __parent__ = None + +An object with a ``__parent__`` attribute and a ``__name__`` attribute +is said to be *location-aware*. Location-aware objects define an +``__parent__`` attribute which points at their parent object. The +root object's ``__parent__`` is ``None``. If the root object in a :mod:`repoze.bfg` application declares that it -implements the ``ILocation`` interface, it is assumed that the objects -in the rest of the model are location-aware. Even if they are not -explictly, if the root object is marked as ``ILocation``, the bfg -framework will wrap each object during traversal in a *location -proxy*, which will wrap each object found during traversal in a proxy -object that has both the ``__name__`` and ``__parent__`` attributes, -but otherwise acts the same as your model object. +implements the ``repoze.bfg.interfaces.ILocation`` interface, it is +assumed that the objects in the rest of the model are location-aware. +If those objects are not explictly location-aware, if the root object +is marked as ``ILocation``, the bfg framework will wrap each object +during traversal in a *location proxy* that has both the ``__name__`` +and ``__parent__`` attributes, but otherwise acts the same as your +model object. You can of course supply ``__name__`` and ``__parent__`` attributes explicitly on all of your model objects, and no location proxying will be performed. +See :ref:`location_module` for documentations of functions which use +location-awareness. + Debugging Security Failures --------------------------- |
