[dancer-users] Dancer::Plugin::Auth::Extensible - removing sub attributes - ready to try out

[David Cantrell]

On 15/12/2012 19:20, David Precious wrote:

>      get '/foo' => requires_role ['Foo','Bar'] => sub { ... };
>
> (requires_roles could be added as an alias, so code could read better.)
>
> I imagine the common requirement will be to say "any of these roles",
> not "all of these roles".  I was considering whether requires_role
> should be for "must have this role" or "must have all of these roles",
> and e.g. a new requires_any_role keyword would be added to ensure a
> user had all the specified roles; I'm not sure how valuable that would
> be, though.

You definitely need to be able to support any and all. Which is the 
default doesn't really matter IMO.  I suggest also letting the user 
supply their own authentication sub so that they can implement exotica 
like "must be cleared for Case Nightmare Green and be ranked Major or 
higher".

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