2007/12/13, Jerome Velociter <jerome@xwiki.com>:

> Hi Jerome,
>
> Agree with you, I don't understand why user with "delete" right on a
> document can't delete it.

ok. I've provided a patch to fix this on JIRA. Let's vote if we want to
apply it :

My +1.

Jerome.
>
> 2007/12/11, Jerome Velociter <jerome@xwiki.com>:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Currently XWiki right service does not allow users that are not creators
>> of a document to delete it with only the "delete" right allowed on that
>> document, they must, to be able to actually delete it, have the "admin"
>> right allowed.
>> This is not totally clear to me if it is the behaviour we should expect,
>> but I would tend to say no, for two reasons :
>>
>> * The delete right is a specific right entry, so it should provide what
>> it
>> says : the right to delete. It is different from edit, so you can share
>> edition on (your) documents with your fellow co-workers, without
>> necessarily allowing them to delete those, and using this right entry,
>> you
>> can also allow users & groups to delete documents without giving them
>> the
>> "admin" right (which would allow them to program in groovy for example).
>> * For a document that hasn't been created by me, but on which I've got
>> the
>> delete right (for example inherited from the space or wiki level), if
>> I'm
>> not an admin (do not have the "admin" right) and I call
>> $doc.hasAccessLevel("delete"), the API will answer "true", but I won't
>> be
>> able to actually delete the doc, which is misleading.
>>
>> I've created a JIRA (http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-1944 ) issue
>> for this and will provide a possible patch, please tell me what you
>> think,
>> so that we can decide if indeed we can allow non-creators to delete
>> documents provided they have the delete right.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jerome.
>>
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