Ok, I've hacked a first version into our code - comments welcome :)

Carsten

Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
> Ok, as noone responded/objected so far, I'll continue this way and
> implement it.
> 
> Carsten
> 
> Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> with SLING-1021 now implemented, the initial script searching is done by
>> a configurable script admin session.
>> Unfortunately this is only one half; the various script implementations
>> sometimes try to read the script by themselves or want to read/access
>> included scripts etc. Currently these implementations still use the
>> session from the current request to do this.
>>
>> I think the correct solution would be that the script implementations
>> use the same session as the script resolution - this would reduce the
>> configuration of the script admin user to a single place.
>>
>> The basic question is now how we want to pass this session from the
>> script resolution to the script engines. Now, the transported object is
>> definitly the resource resolver (and not the jcr session).
>>
>> One viable option is to pass the resource resolver as a predefined
>> attribute in the javax.script.ScriptContext.
>>
>> In this context we have another problem :)
>>
>> The script object passed to the scripts contains the script resource as
>> scripts might need this resource. Each resource has the
>> getResourceResolver method which now returns a resource resolver using
>> the configured script admin user. I'm not 100% sure if this is kind of a
>> security problem. If so, this method should return a resource which is
>> (lazily) fetched by the resource resolver of the current request. To
>> avoid problems we should create a synthetic resource if the current user
>> is not allowed to read the script.
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> Carsten
> 
> 


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