fellow ZPUGDC'ers,

I'm trying to write a script that will determine if the user is part of 
a particular (gruf) group.  I've seen this construct: 
"context.portal_membership.getAuthenticatedMember().getRoles()".  I was 
hoping there was a similar method called "getGroups()".  My problem is 
I can't find which interface or class defines getRoles() or I would 
look at the apis there myself.  I've tried looking everywhere I can 
think.  Can someone help me on this -and tell  me where I can look for 
such a method?   Is there a user interface/class that defines such 
methods?   Thanks very much.

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David Diskin, david.diskin(at)verizon.net

The answer to this requires your using GRUF.  If so, you should be able 
to use the getGroups() method on the GRUF user wrapper.  Caveat:  you 
can't do this from a python script, because the method is marked 
private.  The easiest way to get around that is to use an external 
method.

GRUF is required because these are actually methods on a user object, 
and the core Zope user interface has no real concept of group (later 
Zope versions have made some allowances, but the underlying Zope 
structure is based on role assignment).  GRUF wraps the original user 
provider object with one which has a group support interface.

Take a look at the GroupUserFolder/GRUFUser.py file for the details.


On Mar 26, 2005, at 5:11 PM, David Diskin wrote:
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