On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Srinath Perera <[email protected]> wrote:
> Others == IS guys , just FYI

Yep OK.

Cheers,
Anjana.

>
> 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
>>>> 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/
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Anjana Fernando
>> Software Engineer
>> WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com
>> lean.enterprise.middleware
>>
>
>
>
> --
> ============================
> 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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Software Engineer
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lean.enterprise.middleware
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