why user-roles?

[Stefan Pietschmann <de...@gmail.com>]

What is the benefit of declaring custom roles in a user-role file outside
cocoon.xconf, if you can do it together with the configuration inside
cocoon.xconf? Is there any? I don't see the point .

 

Stefan

Re: why user-roles?

[Sylvain Wallez <sy...@apache.org>]

Stefan Pietschmann wrote:
>
> What is the benefit of declaring custom roles in a user-role file 
> outside cocoon.xconf, if you can do it together with the configuration 
> inside cocoon.xconf? Is there any? I don't see the point …
>

Simple separation of concerns. Declaring roles in a separate file allows 
to use the role shorthands in the xconf without "polluting" that file 
with role definitions.

Sylvain

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Re: why user-roles?

[Berin Loritsch <bl...@d-haven.org>]

Stefan Pietschmann wrote:
>
> What is the benefit of declaring custom roles in a user-role file 
> outside cocoon.xconf, if you can do it together with the configuration 
> inside cocoon.xconf? Is there any? I don't see the point …
>
>  
>
> Stefan
>
It helps with conciseness in the cocoon.xconf.

For non-standard custom components, it's probably easier to do the 
generic <component> xml setup.  The Roles file makes it so the config 
file is a little bit friendlier to users.