Questions about node rights

Hi everyone,

A couple of questions:

1) Can I assume that unlike ACL rights which may or may not be present, that the NodeRights object *always* has an owner, owner group, and public right object?

2) Instead of calling DocManClient.UpdateNodeRight(), could I instead update the nodeRight object then call UpdateNode() when I'm done? I would ideally like to have several changes happen at once, ideally with only one trip to Content server. During an update I may be updating other node attributes as well as category attributes and would like to do the updating with as little network traffic as possible

-Hugh

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Jason_Smith

1) No, you cannot assume a node always has an owner, owner group, or public access right object. You are able to remove these entirely, which is sligthly different from just removing all permissions from them.

2) I'm not sure if the UpdateNode method will update the node permissions. If it doesn't then you will have to make a separate call to do this.

Hugh_Ferguson

Codewise, what would testing for a missing permission look like, i.e. missing owner, group or world permission?

Would it be something like

NodeRights nRights

if (nRights.OwnerRight == null)

// Owner is missing.....

ALso, how do you remove a node right? i.e. you want to remove world permissions. Is it

nRIghts.PublicRight = nulll;

???

-Hugh

Jason_Smith

Missing owner, owner group, or public access rights would be returned as null.

To remove a node right you can just call the RemoveNodeRight() method or you can use the SetNodeRights() method to update all node rights at once (and to remove the public right you would just set it to null).