id,node_id,number,title,user,state,locked,assignee,milestone,comments,created_at,updated_at,closed_at,author_association,pull_request,body,repo,type,active_lock_reason,performed_via_github_app,reactions,draft,state_reason 1175690070,I_kwDOBm6k_c5GE5tW,1676,"Reconsider ensure_permissions() logic, can it be less confusing?",9599,open,0,,3268330,3,2022-03-21T17:14:57Z,2022-12-02T01:23:40Z,,OWNER,,"> Updated documentation: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/e627510b760198ccedba9e5af47a771e847785c9/docs/internals.rst#await-ensure_permissionsactor-permissions > >> This method allows multiple permissions to be checked at onced. It raises a `datasette.Forbidden` exception if any of the checks are denied before one of them is explicitly granted. >> >> This is useful when you need to check multiple permissions at once. For example, an actor should be able to view a table if either one of the following checks returns `True` or not a single one of them returns `False`: > > That's pretty hard to understand! I'm going to open a separate issue to reconsider if this is a useful enough abstraction given how confusing it is. _Originally posted by @simonw in https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1675#issuecomment-1074177827_",107914493,issue,,,"{""url"": ""https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1676/reactions"", ""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,