user rights

classes/User.php

@@ -711,4 +711,30 @@ class User extends Memcached_DataObject
 
         return true;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Does this user have the right to do X?
+     *
+     * With our role-based authorization, this is merely a lookup for whether the user
+     * has a particular role. The implementation currently uses a switch statement
+     * to determine if the user has the pre-defined role to exercise the right. Future
+     * implementations may allow per-site roles, and different mappings of roles to rights.
+     *
+     * @param $right string Name of the right, usually a constant in class Right
+     * @return boolean whether the user has the right in question
+     */
+
+    function hasRight($right)
+    {
+        switch ($right)
+        {
+         case Right::deleteOthersNotice:
+            return $this->hasRole('moderator');
+            break;
+         default:
+            $result = false;
+            Event::handle('UserRightsCheck', array($this, &$result));
+            return $result;
+        }
+    }
 }

lib/right.php

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * StatusNet, the distributed open-source microblogging tool
+ *
+ * Class for user rights
+ *
+ * PHP version 5
+ *
+ * LICENCE: This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ *
+ * @category  Authorization
+ * @package   StatusNet
+ * @author    Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
+ * @copyright 2009 StatusNet, Inc.
+ * @license   http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html GNU Affero General Public License version 3.0
+ * @link      http://status.net/
+ */
+
+if (!defined('STATUSNET') && !defined('LACONICA')) {
+    exit(1);
+}
+
+/**
+ * class for rights
+ *
+ * Mostly for holding the rights constants
+ *
+ * @category Authorization
+ * @package  StatusNet
+ * @author   Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
+ * @license  http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html GNU Affero General Public License version 3.0
+ * @link     http://status.net/
+ */
+
+class Right
+{
+    const deleteOthersNotice = 'deleteothersnotice';
+}
+

tests/UserRightsTest.php

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+<?php
+
+if (isset($_SERVER) && array_key_exists('REQUEST_METHOD', $_SERVER)) {
+    print "This script must be run from the command line\n";
+    exit();
+}
+
+define('INSTALLDIR', realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/..'));
+define('STATUSNET', true);
+
+require_once INSTALLDIR . '/lib/common.php';
+
+class UserRightsTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
+{
+    protected $user = null;
+
+    function setUp()
+    {
+        $this->user = User::register(array('nickname' => 'userrightstestuser'));
+    }
+
+    function tearDown()
+    {
+        $profile = $this->user->getProfile();
+        $this->user->delete();
+        $profile->delete();
+    }
+
+    function testInvalidRole()
+    {
+        $this->assertFalse($this->user->hasRole('invalidrole'));
+    }
+
+    function standardRoles()
+    {
+        return array('admin', 'moderator');
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @dataProvider standardRoles
+     *
+     */
+
+    function testUngrantedRole($role)
+    {
+        $this->assertFalse($this->user->hasRole($role));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @dataProvider standardRoles
+     *
+     */
+
+    function testGrantedRole($role)
+    {
+        $this->user->grantRole($role);
+        $this->assertFalse($this->user->hasRole($role));
+    }
+}