Privileged API
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When designing a library and its API, you often do not talk only to one audience of users, but to multiple groups. For example one group shall be allowed to create objects, other group shall just query their state. In some sense the first group has more privileges, just like a server administrator can change content of a website, while regular uses can only view its HTML pages.
This topic has been deeply discussed in section Give the Creator of an Object More Rights in Chapter 5. You can also listen to API Design Tips podcast dedicated to Privileged API:
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