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roles for anonymous users #231

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abstratt opened this issue Aug 22, 2017 · 0 comments

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abstratt commented Aug 22, 2017 •

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Imagine an application that allows users to see things and act on things anonymously. Examples:

anonymous commenting, or voting
a shopping cart that only requires login at checkout time

A possibility would be have the concept of an anonymous role, a role that is assigned implicitly to a non-identified user.

Some things to consider:

when the user signs up, his data would somehow have to be preserved or transferred to the role it signed up for
would we ever need to allow more than one anonymous role? What for?
would the concept of an implicit role make sense for signed up users as well? Wouldn't a base role class shared by all signed-up roles be enough?
do we really need an anonymous role, or just allow one of the application roles to be assigned to anonymous users as well?

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