Perforce - reading p4 protect data

On Friday 04 August 2006 07:43, Ashwin Bhat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Are there any APIs provided by Perforce or P4Perl which
will help evaluate
> "p4 protect" data
>
> For example: given a folder, I would like to find out
what users or groups
> have access to it and what type of access.
>
> If there is no such api, does anyone have a pseudo code
or logic on how
> perforce evaluates them. Based on the P4 documentation
it seems as though
> one would need to make passes of the data and maintain
this in some another
> db. I would like to do this real-time
>
> Any suggestions?

Try the new 'p4 protects' command in the 2006.1 server. 

    protects -- Display protections in place for a given
user/path

    p4 protects [ -a | -u user ] [ file ... ]

        'p4 protects' display the lines from the
protections table that
        apply to the current user.  The protections table is
managed by
        'p4 protect'.

        If the -a flag is given, protection lines for all
users are
        displayed.  If the -u user flag is given, protection
lines for that
        user are displayed.  The -u argument can also refer
to a group.

        If the file argument is given, only those protection
lines that
        apply to the named files are displayed.

        The -a and -u flags require 'super' access granted
by 'p4 protect'.

Tony
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