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By Pete Su
+A major goal in OpenACS 4 is to unify and normalize many of the core services @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ OpenACS application had to manage access control to its data separately. Later on, a notion of "scoping" was introduced into the core data model.
"Scope" is a term best explained by example. Consider some
-hypothetical rows in the address_book table:
| ... | scope | user_id | group_id | ... |
| ... | user | 123 | ... | |
| ... | group | 456 | ... | |
| ... | public | ... |
The first row represents an entry in User 123's personal address book,
+hypothetical rows in the address_book table:
| ... | scope | user_id | group_id | ... |
| ... | user | 123 | ... | |
| ... | group | 456 | ... | |
| ... | public | ... |
The first row represents an entry in User 123's personal address book, the second row represents an entry in User Group 456's shared address book, and the third row represents an entry in the site's public address book.
In this way, the scoping columns identify the security context in which a @@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ application's data model. In other words, it should be easy to "hook into" the object model, and that ability should not have a major impact on the application data model.
Note: Is the API the only way to obtain values? How does -this integrate with application level SQL queries?
| Document Revision # | Action Taken, Notes | When? | By Whom? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 0.1 | Creation | 08/10/2000 | Bryan Quinn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 0.2 | Major re-write | 08/11/2000 | Pete Su | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 0.3 | Draft completed after initial reviews | 08/22/2000 | Pete Su | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 0.4 | Edited, updated to conform to requirements template, pending freeze | 08/23/2000 | Kai Wu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Final edits before freeze | 08/24/2000 | Pete Su | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 0.5 | Edited for consistency | 08/27/2000 | Kai Wu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 0.6 | Put Object ID stuff first, because it makes more sense | 08/28/2000 | Pete Su | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 0.7 | Added requirement that knowledge-level objects must be moveable between
+this integrate with application level SQL queries?
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