Bryan,

How does one get READ for /resources? Put another way, what policy
corresponds to /resources? The user has been added to all policies
available through the UI, and /resources does not appear in
authorizations.xml.

Thanks,
-Mark

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 8:37 AM, Bryan Bende <[email protected]> wrote:

> Mark,
>
> The resources end-point returns all of possible resource identifiers
> that can be used to create policies. If you look in authorizations.xml
> on the policies and see things like "/flow" or"/controller", those are
> examples of resources.
>
> I'm not sure that NiFi itself uses it for anything, but it is more for
> external systems or scripts that may want to retrieve this
> information. For example, integration with Apache Ranger lets you
> define policies in Ranger and it needs to know the list of resources
> to define policies for.
>
> As far as I know, a user would need READ to /resources to make a
> request to the end-point.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bryan
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 8:13 AM, Mark Bean <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What information specifically does the Rest API endpoint "/resources"
> > provide?
> >
> > Also, a user belongs to every policy, and when hitting that endpoint
> still
> > receives "No applicable policies could be found. Contact the system
> > administrator." Is the "/resources" endpoint still supported?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
>

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