On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Prabath Siriwardena <[email protected]>
wrote:

> If I understand your requirement correctly, this is about a federation
> scenario, where users are not under the domain of DSS.
>
> I guess we need to fix couple of things here..
>
> When I last looked into DSS - the way the DSS picks the username is from
> the UT header - and the DS must be secured with UT to enable RBAC (please
> correct me if not).
>
> There we need to introduce an extension point to provide the username as
> well as the roles of the user. And out-of-the-box we can ship UT based
> handler (please check how its done in Entitlement mediator in ESB).
>
> With that way, irrespective of the the security context, you can find the
> user and the roles.
>
> The above scenario is not just for federation - but for both scenarios.
>
> Now - how do we have handle this in a federation scenario - I guess that
> is what you try to fix here.
>
> The runtime behavior won't change from what is described above, even in
> the federation case. You pass the security context to the extension and get
> back username and the roles, and security context will carry user's roles.
>
> Now the challenge is at the configuration time. How do find the allowed
> roles, in a federation case..?
>
> This is why we have trusted identity provider feature. In a federation
> scenario, you first need to add a trusted identity provider. Each trusted
> identity provider defines its own roles - and in DSS wizard you pick the
> IdP and the roles associated with it.
>

​When we add IS as a trusted IDP, at design time DSS will call IS and get
all the roles so we can pic a set to secure the DSS ? Is that correct ?

Regards,
/Nuwan​



>
> Please let me know if you would like to discuss further on this..
>
> Thanks & regards,
> -Prabath
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Rajith Vitharana <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are thinking of doing an improvement in role based filtering
>> functionality in DSS. We had a scenario where in a clustered environment
>> users are only maintained in Wso2 IS. So when trying to do role based
>> filtering, DSS tries to find the user in local userstore which doesn't have
>> the user which results in error.
>>
>> So the idea is to provide a extension point where we can configure the
>> way to get roles of user.
>>
>> And when creating data service, we can select the roles which are allowed
>> to view filtered content. So for that also we need an api where we can get
>> all available user roles. So we'll have two method APIs in a single
>> interface as follows
>>
>> [1] - public String[] getUserRoles(MessageContext msgContext) throws
>> DataServiceFault
>> [2] - public String[] getAvailableUserRoles() throws DataServiceFault
>>
>> [1] and [2] will return array of role names.
>> And to configure this extension we are going to provide a config file
>> called "dataservices.xml" in "conf" folder
>>
>> Appreciate your feedback on this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
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>>
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