Comments requested on Owner blueprint (doesn't seem to work)

[djowett]

I'd appreciate comments on the following.

After investigating whether the owner blueprint is really working (it wasn't on my latest project), I found that owner.py and the owner blueprint documentation both expect item['_owner'] to be a list, whereas this commit in collective.jsonify (in 2011) sets what will be item['_owner'] to a string.

Did a matching commit to collective.jsonmigrator get lost at that stage? Has anyone seen the owner blueprint working since? I'm happy to write a fix, but want to know if I'm breaking anything that works.

And (in case folk think I'm moaning) I still really appreciate the product and (esp @garbas) your work on it.

[garbas]

Quoting Daniel Jowett (2014-07-23 12:33:00)

I'd appreciate comments on the following.

After investigating whether the owner blueprint is really working (it wasn't on
my latest project), I found that owner.py and the owner blueprint documentation
both expect item['_owner'] to be a list, whereas this commit in
collective.jsonify (in 2011) sets what will be item['_owner'] to a string.

Did a matching commit to collective.jsonmigrator get lost at that stage? Has
anyone seen the owner blueprint working since? I'm happy to write a fix, but
want to know if I'm breaking anything that works.

And (in case folk think I'm moaning) I still really appreciate the product and
(esp @garbas) your work on it.

feel free to contribute.

Rok Garbas - http://www.garbas.si

[mamoep]

I just ran into the same issue. Here is a diff for the owner.py which solves it and also supports Dexterity.

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> try:
>     from plone.dexterity.interfaces import IDexterityContent
>     dexterity_available = True
> except:
>     dexterity_available = False
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>
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>
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<             if item[ownerkey] is None or len(item[ownerkey]) != 2:
---
>             if item[ownerkey] is None:
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<             if not IBaseObject.providedBy(obj):
---
>             if not (IBaseObject.providedBy(obj) or (dexterity_available and IDexterityContent.providedBy(obj))):
>                 yield item
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<             if item[ownerkey][0] and item[ownerkey][1]:
<                 try:
<                     obj.changeOwnership(
<                         self.memtool.getMemberById(item[ownerkey][1]))
<                 except Exception as e:
<                     raise Exception('ERROR: %s SETTING OWNERSHIP TO %s' %
<                                     (str(e), item[pathkey]))
<
<                 try:
<                     obj.manage_setLocalRoles(item[ownerkey][1], ['Owner'])
<                 except Exception as e:
<                     raise Exception('ERROR: %s SETTING OWNERSHIP2 TO %s' %
<                                     (str(e), item[pathkey]))
<
<             elif not item[ownerkey][0] and item[ownerkey][1]:
<                 try:
<                     obj._owner = item[ownerkey][1]
<                 except Exception as e:
<                     raise Exception('ERROR: %s SETTING __OWNERSHIP TO %s' %
<                                     (str(e), item[pathkey]))
---
>             try:
>                 obj.changeOwnership(
>                     self.memtool.getMemberById(item[ownerkey]))
>             except Exception as e:
>                 raise Exception('ERROR: %s SETTING OWNERSHIP TO %s' %
>                                 (str(e), item[pathkey]))
>
>             try:
>                 obj.manage_setLocalRoles(item[ownerkey], ['Owner'])
>             except Exception as e:
>                 raise Exception('ERROR: %s SETTING OWNERSHIP2 TO %s' %
>                                 (str(e), item[pathkey]))