RE: [PEAR-DEV] New Package Proposal: Enterprise A&A

See, I have two user object. One on the client that is basically a pass thru to the Interface that talks to the server. On the service end there is a user object as well with similar function prototypes as the client. At first glance one could justify the existence of such an object..I mean, why have a command->user->provider structure when you could just have the command->provider. The answer is the user object could be seriailzed along with some token on the server to support single sign-on. Once serialized subsequent request by other apps just get the object in memory. --Tony On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Lukas Smith wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tony Bibbs [mailto:tony@tonybibbs.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 11:23 PM > > To: Lukas Smith > > Cc: 'Roberto Bertó'; 'PEAR Development' > > Subject: RE: [PEAR-DEV] New Package Proposal: Enterprise A&A > > > > Basically you are saying you want to cache the results to avoid > recursive > > calls later on unless some admin makes a change. That I fully agree > with. > > Yeah this is the only way you can get away with adding something like > implied rights or other more advanced features. > > Basically you are doing classic denormalization: > Trade storage space and update speed for faster read speed. > > For data that is complex to fetch from the normalized source and that > sees a lot more reads than updates, such as this, it makes a lot of > sense. > > LiveUser currently only stores the serialized permission array during > the life of a session. I would love to change this that the permission > array is serialized at first use and then whenever the underlying data > changes it is regenerated. > > Regards, > Lukas > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------| Tony Bibbs | "I guess you have to remember that those who don't | tony@tonybibbs.com | hunt or fish often see those of us who do as | | harmlessly strange and sort of amusing. When you | | think about it, that might be a fair assessment." | | --Unknown | ------------------------------------------------------------------------|