Assigning list of values to user control property

Question

Hi,

I have a button user control, on which I've created a property, UserRights, which I use to define the rights a user must have before the button is enabled. These rights are defined as public constants in a class called UserRight (I don't use Enum for some special code design reasons). So, what I would like to achive is this:

<hmk:Button Id="BtnSave" UserRights='<%#UserRight.Create, UserRight.Modify%>' ... runat="server" />

Right now, the UserRights property is implemented as:

public List<int> UserRights {get; set; }

And therefore, I need to do like this:

<hmk:Button Id="BtnSave" UserRights='<%#new List<int> {UserRight.Create, UserRight.Modify }%>' ... runat="server" />

Is it possible to achieve what I want as stated in the first example?

Best regards Henrik

Answer 1

(re the syntax proposed - no, not that I know of)

Even if they aren't enums - are they bitwise flags? You could have an int property and use UserRight.Create | UserRight.Modify, and have the property setter take the bits apart into the component flags.

But it would be a lot easier with a [Flags] enum. I'd be interested in what those reasons are... if you were using an object/string, then fine - but with an int... I wonder if there is a trick that might let you use it the "easy" way.

Answer 2

I think you should handle your button state and overall action logic at the composite control level (which gets passed from a higher level such as the page the control is on, or the part of your website the page belongs to).