[jifty-devel] tutorial talks of overriding default _elements/nav

Jesse Vincent jesse at bestpractical.com
Fri Jul 6 08:47:21 EDT 2007


On Jul 5, 2007, at 11:45 PM, Matthew Lenz wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 21:49 -0400, Jesse Vincent wrote:
>> On Jul 5, 2007, at 9:16 PM, Matthew Lenz wrote:
>>
>>> but if you take a look at the _elements/nav it says:
>>>
>>> %# Navigation frobbing now handled in Dispatcher plugins
>>> %# This exists for backwards compatibility
>>>
>>> Is there an example of using the dispatcher to draw the nav?
>>
>> _elements/nav wasn't so much to draw nav as to set up Jifty->web-
>>> navigation
>
> I found an example in some 3 part slide show that uses the dispatcher
> for just about everything.
>
>>> Which brings up another question on which I was hoping I could get
>>> some
>>> clarification.  I'm having a bit of difficulty understanding the
>>> implementation of authorization throughout an application.  Am I
>>> correct
>>> in that most authorization could feasibly be placed into the
>>> dispatcher?
>>
>> Have a look at Jifty::Plugin::Authentication::Password
>
> that's for authentication right? maybe i didn't use the right term.

You did. I was tired. Sorry about that. Generally, I push  
authorization down into the model. It doesn't generally matter if  
someone can display a page, so long as they can't see/edit the data.   
perldoc Jifty::Record for sterling's latest work in easy authz  
controls on model classes.

jesse
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