File access control at field level rather than template

[DrQuincy]

In a template you can enable:

Prevent direct access to file assets owned by pages using this template?

And in site/assets the folder of that page has a minus prefix added so Apache tells PW to handle the file request.

I have a situation where I want the top level page to have no access control but I also have a series of files where I need access control. I.e. it's a mix. I'm just wondering if I make the files be part of a repeater, can I set access control for the repeater only since it has its own ID. Will this work?

I would guess that it does but I wanted to see if anyone has used this approach in production. 

[monollonom]

2 hours ago, DrQuincy said:

I'm just wondering if I make the files be part of a repeater, can I set access control for the repeater only since it has its own ID. Will this work?

Funnily I tried exactly this yesterday and no unfortunately it doesn’t work because the repeater will check the access control of the page holding it. However it could a request to add a line to check if its access control is on, something like:

public function getAccessTemplate($type = 'view') {
	if($this->template->useRoles) return $this->template;
	$p = $this->getForPageRoot();
	return $p->id ? $p->getAccessTemplate($type) : parent::getAccessTemplate($type);
}

I tried and it worked but it wasn’t a fit in the end for what I was trying to achieve.