[rt-users] How ACL/E info needed and question about accessing a queue in Perl API?

[Johnathan Bell]

Thanks again, that worked! You've been indispensable with these  
questions!

- Johnathan

On Jun 16, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Ruslan Zakirov wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Johnathan Bell<johnathan.bell at baker.edu 
> > wrote:
>> I'm trying to modify some ACL's from a script. In particular, the  
>> user-
>> created group access rights for queues. Looking at the database, and
>> docs, it seems that ACE's only reference PrincipalID's.
>
> Example of adding ACL you can find in lib/RT/Handle.pm, there is big
> funtions that turns etc/initialdata files into records in the DB.
> Also, search for GrantRight method that is more suitable.
>
>
>> My first question is, is what I just said true? Second, does the Id()
>> function of many (all?) objects return the same ID that needs to go
>> into the ACE in the ACL? Third... How do I load an existing queue in
>> the Perl API? For instance, to load a Group, I can:
>>
>> --snip--
>>     my $groupObj = new RT::Group($currentUser);
>>     $groupObj->LoadUserDefinedGroup($groupName);
>> --/snip--
>>
>> and then reference the $groupObj for it's name, id, members, and so
>> on... How can I do this for a queue?
> Pretty similar using ->Load method:
>
> my $queue_obj = RT::Queue->new( $current_user );
> $queue_obj->Load( $name || $qid );
>
>>
>> Is there something similar for queues, or do I need to attack this
>> from a different angle? The docs for queue and queues don't indicate
>> this is so, so I'm guessing that I need to go some other route. How  
>> do
>> I go about getting a queue into an RT::Queue variable?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Johnathan
>>
>> --
>> Johnathan Bell
>> Internet System Administrator, Baker College
>>
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> -- 
> Best regards, Ruslan.

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Johnathan Bell
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