ANNOUNCE: Spiff Guard 1.9.0

[Samuel]

Introduction
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Spiff Guard is a library for implementing access lists in Python. It
provides a clean and simple API and was implemented with performance
and security in mind. It was originally inspired by phpGACL (http://
phpgacl.sourceforge.net/), but features an API that is significantly
cleaner and easier to use.

Spiff Guard is free software and distributed under the GNU GPLv2.


Changes since 1.4.0:
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The bad:
o This release breaks API, hard.

The good:
o Spiff Guard is now type-aware. That means that you can create your
own types and store them in the database; Spiff Guard will create
an instance of the same type when you retrieve the object later.
o Sections are now obsolete - instead, just use types as a section.
o Spiff Guard makes now extensive use of caching.
o The API is now a lot easier to use - if that is even possible.

Example Code:
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guard = Guard(db_connection)
group = ResourceGroup("My Group")
user = Resource("My User")
website = ResourceGroup("My Website")
view = Action("View")
write = Action("Edit")
guard.grant(group, view, website)
guard.grant(user, edit, website)
if guard.has_permission(user, view, website):
print 'Permission granted.'


Dependencies
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sqlalchemy (http://www.sqlalchemy.org/)


Download
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Tarball:
http://pypi.python.org/packages/sou...0.tar.gz#md5=a81ca3f310899ca8471d26ffbb58a83a

SVN:
svn checkout http://spiff.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/libs/Guard/


Links:
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Documentation: http://spiff.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/libs/Guard/README
Example: http://spiff.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/libs/Guard/tests/DBTest.py
Spiff project page: http://code.google.com/p/spiff/
Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/spiff-devel
Bug tracker: http://code.google.com/p/spiff/issues/list
Browse the source: http://spiff.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/libs/Guard/

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask or file a
bug.

-Samuel