[web-devel] Auth plugin usage questions

[Michael Snoyman]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Ian Duncan <iand675 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I currently have a function of type Widget (), and I need to find get the
> user's authorization (or not) in order to render the appropriate
> confidential information. How exactly do I get the authorization
> information? There's currently not really any documentation for this stuff,
> so I thought I'd ask and see what the best way to do this is.
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I think the function you're looking for is maybeAuth[1]. Since Widget is
just a transformer on top of Handler, you can simply use lift:

    myWidget = do
        ma <- maybeAuth
        addJulius ...

HTH,
Michael

[1]
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/yesod-auth/0.3.2/doc/html/Yesod-Helpers-Auth.html#v:maybeAuth
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