Radicale/radicale/acl/__init__.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
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# Copyright © 2008-2011 Guillaume Ayoub
# Copyright © 2008 Nicolas Kandel
# Copyright © 2008 Pascal Halter
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"""
Users and rights management.

This module loads a list of users with access rights, according to the acl
configuration.

"""

from radicale import config


PUBLIC_USERS = []
PRIVATE_USERS = []


def _config_users(name):
    """Get an iterable of strings from the configuraton string [acl] ``name``.

    The values must be separated by a comma. The whitespace characters are
    stripped at the beginning and at the end of the values.

    """
    for user in config.get("acl", name).split(","):
        user = user.strip()
        yield None if user == "None" else user


def load():
    """Load list of available ACL managers."""
    acl_type = config.get("acl", "type")
    if acl_type == "None":
        return None
    else:
        PUBLIC_USERS.extend(_config_users("public_users"))
        PRIVATE_USERS.extend(_config_users("private_users"))
        module = __import__("radicale.acl", fromlist=[acl_type])
        return getattr(module, acl_type)