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| author | Frederick Muriuki Muriithi | 2023-05-11 11:08:39 +0300 |
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| committer | Frederick Muriuki Muriithi | 2023-05-11 11:08:39 +0300 |
| commit | adaa3f59f33476d8718bc24c6b6579c544ef53fd (patch) | |
| tree | 772737ab4480a8f20428f9cc81a9590926b8b284 /issues/authentication_authorisation | |
| parent | 5bf57eafcd8c237ca2a2e747f17f18d66529557d (diff) | |
| download | gn-gemtext-adaa3f59f33476d8718bc24c6b6579c544ef53fd.tar.gz | |
issues: Add notes on anonymous collections
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diff --git a/issues/authentication_authorisation/migrate-user-collections.gmi b/issues/authentication_authorisation/migrate-user-collections.gmi index f0b3609..c3fecbe 100644 --- a/issues/authentication_authorisation/migrate-user-collections.gmi +++ b/issues/authentication_authorisation/migrate-user-collections.gmi @@ -37,8 +37,17 @@ The steps would be something like: * User click the "migrate data" button * System changes user-id on the identified collections from the old user-id to the new user-id +#### Anonymous Collections + +Users can create and work with collections without being authenticated to the system. Such collections (which I dub "anonymous collections") are ephemeral. They were linked to the session[2] via an anonymous user_id. + +In the older system, a user was able to import such anonymous collections by selecting "Import existing collections" when they logged in (see the `import_traits_to_user` function in the sessions[2] module). We need to maintain this feature. This will probably require reworking the code, to get rid of the sessions[2] module while retaining most of what it does. + + + ## Links => https://github.com/genenetwork/genenetwork2/blob/5a8432adb56f9fddbc9e42a9eb8de5e4a0879ee6/wqflask/utility/redis_tools.py#L82-L83 0 => https://issues.genenetwork.org/issues/authentication_authorisation/migrate-user-accounts-from-redis 1 +=> https://github.com/genenetwork/genenetwork2/blob/96fb589371dd1700f0d0f7abc367098d6820c37a/wqflask/wqflask/user_session.py 2 |