[Rt-devel] a fancy ShowUser - not quite possible

[Todd Chapman]

There is nothing to keep you from figuring out the complete call chain
and doing the right thing for each situation.

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Olly Stephens <Olly.Stephens at arm.com> wrote:
> Todd Chapman wrote:
>>
>> D) You can use the Mason request object to figure out where you were
>> called from and then "do the right thing."
>
> Thanks Todd; I hadn't actually thought of that option but it's a good one.  Not sure it will work though; there's nothing to stop a component from using ShowUser in multiple contexts - haven't looked to see if any do - so it would be an imprecise solution.
>
> Jesse Vincent wrote:
>>
>> I'd support a flag to ShowUser which says "you're being used somewhere
>> html isn't acceptable"
>>
>> It needs a better name than that.
>
> Cool.  I'll add this to my TODO list then (both thinking of a name and creating a patch)
>
> Olly
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