[dev] Permissions inheritance

Richard Wallace rwallace at thewallacepack.net
Mon Nov 1 11:29:55 PST 2004


Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
> Quoting Richard Wallace <rwallace at thewallacepack.net>:
> 
>> Is there anyway to optimize this, maybe by loading all the parent
>> permissions in one shot with a single call to the datatree?
> 
> 
> You should be able to load everything with a datatree::get() call 
> starting at
> the root ('-1').
> 

I had thought about that, but that would load all permissions for 
everything, wouldn't it?  I guess I was hoping more for something to do 
the reverse, that is, starting with a node load its attributes and it's 
parents, rather than starting with a node and loading all the children.

Rich


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