[Twisted-Python] need an identity
Sean Riley
sean at ninjaneering.com
Thu Jul 11 12:01:56 MDT 2002
I seem to have a problem...
I need access to the identity for a client as their perspective is being
created from within getPerspectiveRequest(). Although
Service::getPerspectiveRequest is called by the identity instance for the
client, when using the DBAuthorizer, there doesnt appear to be a way to
access this identity object from within getPerspectiveRequest.
The only way to lookup an identity is Authorizer::getIdentityRequest - which
in this case will hit the database again to load the identity. I want the
existing identity instance, not a new instance for the same identity. I know
the Identity instance is out there, but I can't get at it!
The DbAuthorizer does not keep an "identities" list around, so I cant look
up the identity the same way you can in the DefaultAuthorizer.
Is this a security issue? Is access to the identity information for a
perspective not allowed?
One solution would be for me would be for the identity to be passed into
getPerspectiveRequest as another argument:
def getPerspectiveRequest(self, name, identity):
instead of the existing:
def getPerspectiveRequest(self, name):
This is may be too drastic an API change for just this one case... but it
doesnt require changing much existing code...
thoughts?
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Sean Riley
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