Rushmin,
Can you also send a mock UI of the resources section that we discussed?
That will make it more clear on how Policy partials & URL templates are
mapped.


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Rushmin Fernando <[email protected]> wrote:

> App Manager supports both database driven simple roles based resource
> authorization and XACML based authorization.
>
> After reviewing the existing XACML based solution, the following changes
> are proposed.
>
> Concepts
> =======
>
> 1) Policy Partials
>
> 'Target' section of a XACML policy in App Manager can be auto generated,
> since the use defines the URL pattern  and the action (HTTP verb) for the
> resources to be restricted. So only the 'rules' are the dynamic parts.
>
> So in this proposal, users are able to save the conditions of the rules
> (or may be the rules) against the app. These are called policy partials.
>
> 2) Applying policy partials to URL templates
>
> In App Manager publisher there is UI to add url patterns which should be
> applied throttling, role restrictions etc.. There will be option for the
> user to apply one or more policy partials which are defined in step 1, to
> these URL templates.
>
> 3) Policy generation
>
> Actual XACML policies will be generated, taking the policy template,
> applied policy partials and URL template info. There generate policies will
> be persistent and published via identity admin services.
>
> Please see the attached illustration for more details.
>
>
>
>
> --
> *Rushmin Fernando*
> *Technical Lead*
>
> WSO2 Inc. <http://wso2.com/> - Lean . Enterprise . Middleware
>
> email : [email protected]
> mobile : +94772310855
>
>
>


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