I’ve posted a simple component, called Chimp, for doing role based permissions in Flex through metadata. You can check it out at: http://code.google.com/p/flexible-chimp/. The quick overview is that you provide Chimp the user’s roles on start-up and then add meta data to the components for filtering what the user can see.
Here are the setup instructions:
1) Download and add the chimp.swc to your project library
2) Add compiler argument to keep necessary metadata:
-locale en_US -keep-as3-metadata+=Protected
3) Load the Chimp in your application. The Chimp must be loaded after role data is available, but before children are added:
Chimp.load(perms);
4) Add metadata to your Flex components:
[Protected(permissions="ROLE_ADMIN",notInPermissionAction="remove",componentId="this")]
[Protected(permissions="ROLE_UPDATE",inPermissionAction="enable",componentId="updateButton")]
