[Catalyst] Squatting::On::Catalyst

[Matt S Trout]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:02:08PM +0100, Ash Berlin wrote:
> 
> On 30 Jul 2008, at 02:27, John Beppu wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Daniel McBrearty 
> ><danielmcbrearty at gmail.com > wrote:
> >my 0.05 (possibly a bit OT) :
> >
> >Off-topic or not, I think these are interesting and valid questions.
> >
> >I looked previously at a few ways of adding forums etc to the site
> >using 3rd party code, indeed there are many possibilites (some perl,
> >some not)
> >
> >The thing that was always a sticker for me was getting some kind of
> >logical integration, ie:
> >
> >1. letting users keep existing member and login creds
> >
> >Now that composition and embedding of web apps is becoming a  
> >reality, we have to start anticipating needs like this.  For  
> >example, the documentation for an app that's built to be embedded  
> >could state that:
> >It expects a user object to be in its session's "u" key.
> >The app will expect to be able to call the ->name method on this  
> >user object.  (Some apps may want more...  others less...  this is  
> >just a hypothetical example.)
> >If that key is undef, the app will assume the current session is not  
> >in a "logged in" state.
> > I think being up-front about login policy would be enough to share  
> >users across multiple web apps joined together as one cohesive unit.
> 
> 
> I dont. Lets take the example of embedding a forum. It will most  
> likely store its data in a DB of its own design. It will also quite  
> likely have its own user table, and have FKs referencing that  
> table.... see the problem? There's more to sharing users than just  
> logging.
> 
> I can't really see any way around that other than on a case-by-case  
> basis sadly. Someone please feel free to correct me.

Assume all apps use (uid, username, password).

Then if they're all also using DBIC, it's fairly easy. Each "sub-app" uses
the same credential and a store that maps to -its- user class.

We need to have attribute names and column names truly separated though,
which means DBIC 09 most likely.

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