Custom IPrincipal with a Generic

[sloan]

I'm working on a custom IPrincipal.

Sometimes I use the "good ole" MS system of strings.

Lately, I've been storing my roles and rights as Guids.

Check out the below code.

I'm not sure if this is the way to go or not.

What stinks is that I don't see how to keep IRolesAndRights PrincipalT<Tto
be ~only string or guid based. ( The "where" seems to only like base class
stuff for trying to constrain <T>)

Aka, somebody could right a

public interface IRolesAndRights PrincipalABC :
IRolesAndRights PrincipalT<Empl oyee>
{

}

which really doesn't make any sense.

This is a very , very "top level" interface I'm trying to create, so that it
fills IPrincipal needs throughout the company.
There might be 20-25 concrete implementations . ( << Don't ask )

I don't know. I'm just looking for some "This is dumb" or "That's ok"
comments.

public interface IRolesAndRights PrincipalT<T:
System.Security .Principal.IPri ncipal

{

bool IsInRole(T role);

bool IsInAnyRole(T[] roles);

bool IsInAllRoles(T[] roles);

bool HasRight(T right);

bool HasAnyRight(T[] rights);

bool HasAllRights(T[] rights);

}

public interface IRolesAndRights PrincipalString :
IRolesAndRights PrincipalT<stri ng>

{

}

public interface IRolesAndRights PrincipalGuid :
IRolesAndRights PrincipalT<Syst em.Guid>

{

}