Hi,

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Srinath Perera <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Anjana,
>
> What you need is to say something like
>
> "only admin role can invoke updateUserOperation in a Data Service"
>
> Am I right?

Yes, exactly.

>
> I was under the impression we already have this feature (Please talk
> to IS guys). If not, it is matter of writing a Axis2 Handler
>
> 1.  Please do not define this within DSS only
> 2.  If it is not there, this is useful across the platform, so
> negotiate with others, but if you going to do that, you must do it at
> carbon level and check in as a componant and get others to use it.
> 3. Config info should go in axis2.xml I think.
>

Sure OK, will talk to others and see.

Cheers,
Anjana.

> --Srinath
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Anjana Fernando <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We've a requirements in DSS to restrict access to operations for
>> specific user roles. We use a similar method to do content filtering
>> by associating a required role to a specific data output field. So a
>> possibility to achieve the same behaviour for service operation
>> invocation,
>>
>> * Use the data service's associated external services.xml to define
>> these restrictions for service operations.
>> * Use the data service description file (.dbs file) to define these
>> properties as we do with content filtering.
>>
>> The editing the .dbs maybe more convenient to the user in a way that,
>> then the data service is self contained and it will not depend on
>> another service.xml file, to define such behaviour. Currently the
>> services.xml in data service is mainly used for special functionality
>> such as setting axis2 service parameters, for making it an
>> admin/hidden service and so on.
>>
>> I was talking with Amila earlier and his idea is, this should be a
>> general feature that should be common to all services and this type of
>> functionality should be defined in the security wizard. So will such a
>> feature be added in the near by future? .. or shall we continue by
>> defining our own functionality into DSS. Any thoughts are welcome.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Anjana.
>>
>> --
>> Anjana Fernando
>> Software Engineer
>> WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com
>> lean.enterprise.middleware
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>
>
>
> --
> ============================
> Srinath Perera, Ph.D.
>   Senior Software Architect, WSO2 Inc.
>   Visiting Lecturer, University of Moratuwa
>   Member, Apache Software Foundation
>   Research Scientist, Lanka Software Foundation
>   Blog: http://srinathsview.blogspot.com/
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