+1. In API Manager 3.0 we did not introduce such a concept anyway. Are you
suggesting we remove this from 2.x as well?

On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 at 1:17 pm, Sanjeewa Malalgoda <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi All,
> In API Manager we have application access token and user access token
> concept. Application access token is the token obtained using resource
> owner grant type. User access token is the token obtained by user(can be
> application owner or someone else) by using any grant type. Initially we
> introduced this feature to control resource level access of APIs.
>
> As example we can think of one API(camera API) which has 2
> resources(1.View photo 2.Add photo). Then we will need to let users to view
> photos without login to system(means obtain token for user). In that case
> we can limit view resource to application access token and mandate to use
> user token to add photo. This way we can maintain resource access control.
>
> With scopes concept we can still do same. We can give read scope to view
> photo and generate token for that embed with app. If user need to take
> photo then he will have to get token with write(access add photo) scope. In
> oauth spec also we cannot see this type of differentiation. So considering
> all these shall we remove application access token concept from API
> Manager?  Any limitations with this?
>
> Thanks,
> sanjeewa.
>
>
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