Hello
I’m developing an extension which allows specific old tickets to be used as templates when creating new tickets. Each template ticket will be assigned a name and a description, along with a list of RT groups who are allowed to use that particular template.
When I did something similar in the past, I stored a list of group IDs along with each template, and when determining which templates to show a user, I would load all of them and see if the current user was a member of any of the listed groups. I used per-user caching so that it would only do this check every few minutes.
An alternative would be to use the ACL mechanism, where I have an RT class for a ticket template (inheriting from RT::Ticket and RT::Record), and grant a new right like “UseTemplate” on each template to the relevant groups, and then just use “CurrentUserHasRight()” method on each template.
The list-of-groups approach is slightly easier to code but feels clunky and inefficient to me - but I have no idea how it would compare to the ACL approach, which re-uses well-tested RT code but for all I know may have problems when used in this way.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to which way to go, or of another approach to the problem?
Edit: Later I realised there is a
RT::User::OwnGroups()method, so the list-of-groups approach is not so bad since I just call that method once to get a list of group IDs the user is a member of, then include templates that match any of those - I don’t have to callRT::Group::HasMember()for every group.Leaving this up in case anyone has strong feelings either way.