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Implementation for: http://issues.roundup-tracker.org/issue2550731 Add mechanism for the detectors to be able to tell the source of the data changes. Support for tx_Source property on database handle. Can be used by detectors to find out the source of a change in an auditor to block changes arriving by unauthenticated mechanisms (e.g. plain email where headers can be faked). The property db.tx_Source has the following values: * None - Default value set to None. May be valid if it's a script that is created by the user. Otherwise it's an error and indicates that some code path is not properly setting the tx_Source property. * "cli" - this string value is set when using roundup-admin and supplied scripts. * "web" - this string value is set when using any web based technique: html interface, xmlrpc .... * "email" - this string value is set when using an unauthenticated email based technique. * "email-sig-openpgp" - this string value is set when email with a valid pgp signature is used. (*NOTE* the testing for this mode is incomplete. If you have a pgp infrastructure you should test and verify that this is properly set.) This also includes some (possibly incomplete) tests cases for the modes above and an example of using ts_Source in the customization.txt document.
author John Rouillard <rouilj@ieee.org>
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5 [see also the roundup package docstring]
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10 In short:
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11 Class.find() - may match multiple properties, uses keyword args.
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17 sorting arguments (it's a reserved URL character ;). Just made no
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18 prefix mean ascending and '-' prefix descending.
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20 ItemClass - renamed to IssueClass to better match it only having one
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21 hypderdb class "issue". Allowing > 1 hyperdb class breaks the
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23 we'd want bugs to link to support and vice-versa).
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26 my top-level CGI handler. In a nutshell, the handler looks for a
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27 method on itself called 'index%s' or 'item%s' where %s is a class.
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