[Zope] Question about __ac_permissions__ and more generally about the documentation

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:31:49 +0100


Have you read the developers guide?

Chris

Bocquillon Philippe wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> In the following piece of Python code for Zope:
> 
> __ac_permissions__=(
>         ('View management screens', ('manage_main',)),
>         ('View', ('', 'index_html', 'update',
>                   'show_source','view_image','picture',)),
>         ('Change', ('manage_edit',), ('Manager',)),
>         )
> 
> Could you tell me:
> 
> 1) What does the first "empty" method ('') associated to the View permission
> mean?
> 2) Is the Manager method associated with the Change permission the class
> constructor for a Manager class which would represent the Manager role?
> 3) Why is Manager method needed in addition to the manage_edit one?
> 4) Why are there 2 tuples associated with the Change permission instead of
> having one tuple containing both the manage_edit and Manager methods?
> 
> More generally, where can I find a REFERENCE doc (instead of a collection of
> how-tos or other items more or less related to the topic which is
> interesting you) in which such information (I mean developping Python code
> for Zope products) is __clearly__ defined?
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> 
> Philippe
> 
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