*I'm not sure that the /pages endpoint ACTUALLY works that way - it just
should.*

Ah, of course. My apologies, I misunderstood you before. I agree with ya.

*I can point you towards where it is used in the angular branch*

Awesome, I appreciate that. Thanks for your help, Erin!


On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Erin Noe-Payne <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I'm not sure that the /pages endpoint ACTUALLY works that way - it just
> should.
>
>
> I'm also not sure about documentation on the pages for render resource
> but I can point you towards where it is used in the angular branch:
>
> https://github.com/apache/rave/blob/angular/rave-portal-resources/src/main/webapp/static/script/common/resources/PagesForRenderResource.js
>
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Jmeas Apache <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > *In otherwords the /pages endpoint returns alist of all pages that a
> given
> > user is allowed to see.*
> >
> > Interesting. I wasn't able to reproduce this on the master branch with
> > jane.doe as the user (who doesn't have admin rights). She can see
> > everyone's pages. Might I be doing something wrong? Or might the master
> > branch be outdated relative to the Angular branch in this regard?
> >
> > *there is a "pages for render" endpoint*
> >
> > Oh, really? Awesome! Is this documented somewhere?
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Erin Noe-Payne <
> [email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> In concept the /pages endpoint is only accessible as a logged in user,
> >> and the list of pages returned to a given user will always be filtered
> >> via their permissions. In otherwords the /pages endpoint returns a
> >> list of all pages that a given user is allowed to see.
> >>
> >> Regarding the needs of the angular application, there is a "pages for
> >> render" endpoint, because a page or pages need to be composed with its
> >> regions, widgets, and security tokens before the widgets can actually
> >> be rendered for the client.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Jmeas Apache <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hey there folks!
> >> >
> >> > I'm looking at the endpoints for pages, which are specced out here
> >> > <http://wiki.apache.org/rave/RESTAPI>, and I have some questions for
> ya.
> >> >
> >> > One questions regards security and privacy. It seems that the /pages
> >> > endpoint returns the pages for every user, and is also accessible to
> >> every
> >> > user – even users who aren't admins. Would it be preferable for users
> to
> >> > only be allowed to see their own pages, for the sake of security and
> >> > privacy?
> >> >
> >> > Another problem I see is that there's no way to get the pages for
> just a
> >> > single user. In the Angular app, when Jane Doe loads her home page all
> >> that
> >> > the API needs to give back are Jane Doe's pages. That's the most
> valuable
> >> > endpoint, I think, but I'm not seeing it listed on the spec.
> >> >
> >> > In fact, I might go so far as to say that, from the perspective of the
> >> > frontend, that's the *only *endpoint that we need.
> >> >
> >> > So the second suggestion is that we add some new endpoints for getting
> >> the
> >> > pages back for a specific user. And you only get data back if you are
> >> that
> >> > user or you're an admin.
> >> >
> >> > What do y'all think?
> >> >
> >> > James
> >>
>

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