Others == IS guys , just FYI

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Anjana Fernando <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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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/
>>
>
>
>
> --
> 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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