Hi Bill, 1. You have understood it correctly. :) . With the App Manager current model, users need to have publisher role to publish Apps to App store. But once you assign publisher role, they could see all the applications that are in "In-review" state. So that publisher could see all app developers applications. Currently there is no way to control this with roles, but it's a nice to have feature for future release.
Anyway, you could do something like this. - Since you don't want each developer to see apps developed by each other, just assign "Creator" role only for app developers. - Create a system user who is having "Publisher" role. - Since you don't have a person to publish apps manually. We could write a client/script that will run periodically and publish all available applications using the above system user credentials. Period could be decide depending on how frequent developers create apps in app publisher. 2. If you make each developer as a tenant, then you will get your first requirement done. i.e each developer can't see/modify other developers apps. But the problem is, these apps wont appear on a central store once published. If developer1.com published a app, then only users login to app-store from developer1.com could see that application. Tenant sharing and external stores are something we have planed for next App Manager release. (1.1.0) Regards, Dinusha. On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Bill Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > Shashiks and Rushmin and all: > > Thanks for your fast reply! I totally understood what you wrote. > > I knew that I need web servers like Tomcat or Application server to deploy > apps first. I understood that part. That’s not my question. In my case, > each developer has his own account and deploy their apps on Application > Server already. That task has been done! > > > > My question is after that, each developer wants to deploy his own apps in > a common store, which will be used by a lot of subscribers. > > Say, by using the guide from > https://docs.wso2.com/display/APPM100/Quick+Start+Guide , each developer > will have both creator and publisher roles. Since each developer has > publisher role, he can publish/unpublish other developers’ apps. That’s not > what I want*. I want each app from one developer is invisible to others.* > In my case, I don’t have a dedicated person for only publisher role. So > each developer must have both creator and publisher role because otherwise > it will delay the process of publishing apps. > > So my questions are: > > 1. Can we use “creating users with different roles” to resolve the > above issue? > > 2. If NO to question 1, then can we use multi-tenant model to do > it. That is, each developer will be one tenant and has his own domain like > developer1.com, developer2.com etc such that each developer’s apps will > be invisible to others. And after that, they will share their apps in a > common place, i.e., a external store, which is something like WSO2 API > manager’s implementation > https://docs.wso2.com/display/AM180/Publish+to+multiple+external+API+stores > . I noticed that APPM100 has the multi-tenant feature, but it seems that it > doesn’t have the feature of “external store”. How to do “external store” in > APPM100? > > > > Please advice! > > Thanks in advance! > > Bill > > > > *From:* Shashika Karunatilaka [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, July 02, 2015 10:06 AM > *To:* Rushmin Fernando > *Cc:* Bill Liu; WSO2 Developers' List > *Subject:* Re: [Dev] how to set up WSO2 APP manager for this special case? > > > > Hi Bill, > > > > To address your question 1, in WSO2 Application server, for the created > tenant you can create each developer a separate account(note this yours > accounts need to have web app management permission on there user > account)for the same domain, then the developer can upload the web apps > using that account > > > > Thank You. > > > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Rushmin Fernando <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > > > App Manager is a product which helps to govern applications. So you can't > 'deploy' apps in App Manager. In order to deploy apps you can use WSO2 > Application Server [1]. > > > > Once you have a set of deployed applications across the organization (can > be in different application servers) you can use App Manager to publish > those apps and allow users to subscribe. > > > > The end users are not aware of the actual application urls, rather they > will be using the app through the gateway in App Manager. > > > > (By adopting this gateway approach App Manager can have governance when > the end users use the app) > > > > Having set that background, > > > > You can have different developers to deploy their apps to WSO2 Application > Server and create the relevant proxy apps in WSO2 App Manager. And they can > then submit the this proxy app for review and the a user who has publishing > permission can approve and publish it. > > > > Hope this answers your question :-) > > > > > > Thanks > > Rushmin > > > > [1] - http://wso2.com/products/application-server/ > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Bill Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you Sam and all! > > Here I have new question on this. I have the similar scenario, but it’s > for WSO2 APP Manager. Here we try to deploy web applications like war > files instead of API’s. I currently download the binary version 1.0.0 of > WSO2 App Manager from http://wso2.com/products/app-manager > > > > The case is like this: > > 1. I have a lot of developers. Each developer develops his/her own > web applications. And each developer publishes only his own applications, > not other developers’ applications. > > 2. We want to share those applications in a common place to an > external store such that all subscribers can subscribe to them. > > > > How can I do it? > > Thanks in advance! > > Bill > > > > *From:* Sam Sivayogam [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 27, 2015 11:36 PM > *To:* Bill Liu > *Cc:* WSO2 Developers' List > *Subject:* Re: [Dev] how to set up WSO2 API manager for this special case? > > > > Hi Bill, > > > > You can use tenants[1] to achieve your use-case. What you can do is, add > two tenants (refer [2] ) for developer1 and developer2. When you are > adding a tenant you will add an admin user for that tenant so using that > developer1 and developer2 can login to their tenants. When users are adding > APIs In Tenant mode the API's will remain in their own tenants and will not > be visible to others. If you want to share the apis developed by developer1 > and developer2 in a common place you need to publish the API's to an > external store. In your case you can set super tenant (which will be added > by default) as the external store and you can publish the APIs to super > tenant's store. refer [3] to setup an external store > > > > [1]. https://docs.wso2.com/display/AM180/Multi+Tenant+Architecture > > [2]. https://docs.wso2.com/display/AM180/Managing+Tenants > > [3]. > https://docs.wso2.com/display/AM180/Publish+to+multiple+external+API+stores > > > > Thanks, > > Sam > > > > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 3:25 AM, Bill Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings all: > > > > I am learning WSO2 API manager. I downloaded the binary version 1.8.0 from > URL, http://wso2.com/api-management/try-it/. I try to set up the WSO2 > API manager to achieve my goal like this: > > Here I have a group of developers, like developer1, developer2 and etc. > Each developer develops mutiple api's. For example, developer1 develops two > api's like api1_1, api1_2. And developer2 develops three api's like api2_1, > api2_2, api2_3. Here each developer are allowed to publish ONLY his/her own > api's to API store; in other words each developer is NOT allowed to publish > any other developer's api's to API store. For example, developer1 is > allowed to publish api1_1 and api1_2, but is not allowed to publish api2_1, > api2_2, api2_3. And developer2 is allowed to publish api2_1, api2_2 and > api2_3, but is not allowed to publish api1_1 and api1_2. > > The catch here is that the current implementation of WSO2 API manager > allows each developer to publish other developer's api, which is not my > goal. > > > > Please advice how to configure WSO2 API manager to achieve my goal. Or > it's impossible? > > Any suggestion will be highly appreciated. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Bill > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev > > > > > > -- > > *Sam Sivayogam* > > > > Software Engineer > > Mobile : +94 772 906 439 > Office : +94 112 145 345 > > *WSO2, Inc. :* wso2.com > > lean.enterprise.middleware. > > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev > > > > > > -- > > *Rushmin Fernando* > > *Technical Lead* > > > > WSO2 Inc. <http://wso2.com/> - Lean . Enterprise . Middleware > > > > email : [email protected] > > mobile : +94772310855 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev > > > > > > -- > > *Best Regards,* > > *Shashika karunatilaka,* > > *B.Sc in Computer Science,* > > *University of Colombo School of Computing,* > > *Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc(www.wso2.com <http://www.wso2.com>)* > > *D. S. Senanayeka College.* > > http://shashikabokks.wordpress.com > > > > -- > Sent from my iPhone > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev > > -- Dinusha Dilrukshi Associate Technical Lead WSO2 Inc.: http://wso2.com/ Mobile: +94725255071 Blog: http://dinushasblog.blogspot.com/
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