Hi Malaka,

Thanks a lot for the reply. But given the requirement, adding an Identity
server to the current stack is overkill (We are planning to migrate into a
proper implementation soon)
. So for now, we decided to use a custom mediator to get this done.

Thanks

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Malaka Silva <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Hasitha,
>
> In order to implement fine grained authorization, you can use entitlement
> mediator. [1]
>
> [1]
> http://wso2.com/library/articles/2010/10/using-xacml-fine-grained-authorization-wso2-platform/
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Hasitha Amal De Silva <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a general practice to secure an API created in wso2 ESB based on
>> user roles ?
>>
>> I was able to setup a basic auth handler using [1]. But i'm stuck on how
>> to convey the allowedRole for an API to that handler at the API definition.
>>
>> Currently it is configured as :
>>
>> <api xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse"; name="authtestapi"
>> context="/authtest">
>>    <resource methods="GET" uri-template="/test">
>>         .......
>>    </resource>
>>    <handlers>
>>        <handler class="org.wso2.api.basicAuth.BasicAuthHandler"/>
>>     </handlers>
>> </api>
>>
>> It will be great if I can simply pass a parameter in the above
>> configuration specifying the allowed role. Can we customize handlers in
>> such a manner ?
>>
>> [1] :
>> https://github.com/ragavant/wso2-api-security-handlers/tree/master/BasicAuth-handler/src/main/java/org/wso2/api/basicAuth
>>
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>>
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