Hi Samisa,

Should be compatible with IS 5.0.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Samisa Abeysinghe <[email protected]> wrote:

> Which WSO2 IS server version will API-M 1.9 support?
>
> Thanks,
> Samisa...
>
>
> Samisa Abeysinghe
>
> Vice President Delivery
>
> WSO2 Inc.
> http://wso2.com
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Amila De Silva <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> With API Manager 1.9.0, capability will be provided to plug in an
>> External Authorization server. With this change, Authorization Server will
>> be the only entity creating OAuth clients, and issuing access tokens.
>>
>> In order to seamlessly support some of the existing APIM features,
>> certain changes should be done on the Store:
>>
>> 1. Generating Application Token using an Extended Grant Type
>>
>> As of now, Store UI allows to specify a validity period when Generating
>> an Application Access Token. In the previous releases this was possible,
>> since KeyManager component could directly access the tables where tokens
>> are kept. So after generating a token through UI, Store could update the
>> newly generated token giving a preferred validity period. After decoupling
>> Authorization Server, Store would no longer be able to do this, through a
>> direct DB call. Solution to overcome this problem would be to use an
>> entirely new Grant Type to Generate the Application Access Token. The new
>> Grant type would accept validity period as a new parameter and use it when
>>  generating the Application Access Token.
>>
>>
>> 2. Using a Separate Table to store Application Access Tokens
>>
>> Currently, when rendering the UI, Store gets the Access Token by querying
>> the Database directly. After decoupling AS, if we are to Display the
>> Application Token, we would have to Keep the token in a separate Table. In
>> this scenario, Store would act as another client App created on the AS and
>> the Table for storing tokens will be used as a temporary storage. This
>> means that only the most recent Access Token will be kept in, and the table
>> won’t be used to obtain token meta data (such as validity period , Consumer
>> Key) during an API invocation.
>>
>>
>> 3. Generate the token only using /token, /authorize endpoints
>>
>> First time when creating an Application Access Token, Store calls
>> APIKeyMgtSubscriberService.getApplicationAccessToken to obtain a token.
>> This method, simply creates a token and write it down to
>> IDN_OAUTH2_ACCESS_TOKEN, setting token’s type to Application. However when
>> moving forward, we would have to obtain the the Application Access Token
>> only using standard OAuth endpoints.
>>
>>
>> 4. Determining the type of a token using a scope
>>
>> In API Manager, the type of the token (whether it is Application or
>> Application User) is kept in IDN_OAUTH2_ACCESS_TOKEN along with the token.
>> Token Type is used when validating API Invocations (When defining a
>> resource, the type of token required to access it can be specified, and a
>> resource can be only accessed with a token of the specified type). Since
>> the type of the token is tightly coupled with our implementation of Tokens,
>> to make it usable across different Authorization Servers, Token type will
>> be mapped to a scope. So Application Tokens will have a scope like
>> am:application_token (we can make the scope name configurable). When a
>> token is generated through the Store UI, Store will request the token with
>> this scope.
>>
>>
>> These are the major changes required for the Store to function properly.
>> Would appreciate your feedback on these.
>>
>> --
>> *Amila De Silva*
>>
>> WSO2 Inc.
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