Erin, this is a bit of a tangent, but might you know of an example URL I
can hit that would return results for the render endpoint?

There are three parts to the URL: context, identifier, and ID. I'm trying
to see what the endpoint returns, but I'm not sure what these values
represent. Are there example values you know of that I can place into the
URL to get a response from the API?

James


On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Jmeas Apache <[email protected]>
wrote:

> *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 branch be outdated relative to the Angular branch in this regard?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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