How do I build a document db with lucene, but tell the search engine that only certain roles can see certain docs?

When I encountered this issue with Plucene, a Perl port of Lucene, I simply included a "userids" field with each document, which was a space-separated list of the id numbers of users allowed to see that document.

I had to make sure my Plucene tokenizer class considered numbers a word constituent rather than word boundary, which was not the default.

Then, when the user performed a search, my script would programmatically add a clause requiring that the user's user_id be present in that documents userids field. This was done using various classes and methods of Plucene; I did NOT just concatenate to the search string, which could have some issues. That said, what I did is roughly the same as adding " AND userid:5" to each search.

In your case, you could have a similar field, called "role_ids".

In reply to Re: OT: WebApp Authorization Question by ryantate
in thread OT: WebApp Authorization Question by jimbus

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