[Opensim-dev] Test before you call OSSL function

[Mike Higgins]

Yeah, but there is a function in the code to do that for you. And it 
also does lots of error checking. Best to use what is there and not 
duplicate the effort. The big problem is that if there is no "Allow_" 
line in the ini files, the code falls back on the threat level setting, 
which is hard-coded into each OSSL function. There is currently no way 
for one function to know what the threat level is for another function. 
I have proposed 1) adding "Threat_" lines for every OSSL function to the 
osslEnable.ini file, or 2) Moving the threat level for each function 
into a private table in the OSSL class. Option 2 has the advantage that 
no external changes are needed to the ini files. Option 1 gives people 
the choice of changing the threat level of each function. But some 
regions would have to update their ini files to keep things working as 
they are now.

On 10/14/2019 7:44 PM, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> On 2019-10-14 5:04 p.m., Melanie wrote:
>> The internal code is already able to determine permissions from a string
>> version if the osFunction name, exposing that would be quite trivial.
>
> The way I would approach the problem is to make a string by append 
> "Allow_" to the start of a function name and use that string to get 
> the permission setting from the OSSL ini file. It only requires about 
> three or four lines of C# code.
>