Issue 4390: Use of AccessLevel Struct                                                                                                                                                                               (ftamftp-ftf)
Source: DSTC (Mr. Ted McFadden, mcfadden@dstc.edu.au)
Nature: Uncategorized Issue
Severity: 
Summary: The access_rights property is defined as an AccessLevel struct. A
client is able to query this property from a File or
Directory. AccessLevel is defined as:

     struct AccessLevel {
            boolean read;
            boolean insert;
            boolean replace;
            boolean extend;
            boolean erase;
            boolean read_attr;
            boolean change_attr;
            boolean delete;
     };

and represents the permissions granted to a user.  In practice it is
not always possible for a service implementation to know the values of
all of these attributes. Unfortunately there is no way for a service
to report if any of these values cannot be determined.

The ftam spec should provide some means to determine the validity of
the boolean values in this struct, or at the very least specify the
default values for unknown members.

Resolution: Remove the struct from the IDL.
Revised Text: Remove the struct from the properties table.
Actions taken:
June 25, 2001: received issue
Discussion: 

End of Annotations:=====
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 16:26:34 +1000
From: Ted McFadden <ted.mcfadden@iona.com>
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Subject: ftam/ftp ftf issue: File AccessLevel property
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ftam-ftp FTF issue: Use of AccessLevel Struct
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The access_rights property is defined as an AccessLevel struct. A
client is able to query this property from a File or
Directory. AccessLevel is defined as:

     struct AccessLevel {
            boolean read;
            boolean insert;
            boolean replace;
            boolean extend;
            boolean erase;
            boolean read_attr;
            boolean change_attr;
            boolean delete;
     };

and represents the permissions granted to a user.  In practice it is
not always possible for a service implementation to know the values of
all of these attributes. Unfortunately there is no way for a service
to report if any of these values cannot be determined.

The ftam spec should provide some means to determine the validity of
the boolean values in this struct, or at the very least specify the
default values for unknown members.




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