Hello Emanuele,

That sounds good. When the geofence 3.0 branch is there I will update 
the versions in the geoserver modules.
Thanks! Let me know if you need anything else from me.

Regards
Niels

On 07-04-15 12:40, Emanuele Tajariol wrote:
> Hi Niels,
>
> ok, some changes in the geofence branches and versions:
>
> - Current master has been branched to "2.2.x",
> - The user-role refactoring branch is going to be merged into master, which
> will be bumped to version 3.0. This major version change is due to the changes
> in the base model that will make the previous version uncompatible.
>
> For the GeoFence community module in GeoServer 2.7 we'll have to use the
> GeoFence 2.2.x branch, in order to have the DTOs matching, while GeoServer
> master (2.8) will use GeoFence master (3.0).
>
>
>     Cheers,
>     Emanuele
>
>
>
> Alle 16:33:31 di Monday 6 April 2015, Niels Charlier ha scritto:
>> I made a pull request for the changes on geoserver:
>> https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/pull/1005
>>
>> I've put it there already mainly to get commenting and reviewing going.
>> But I do hope we can sort out how to get these changes in the official
>> branches of geofence and geoserver soon!
>>
>> Let me know what you think.
>>
>> Regards
>> Niels
>>
>> On 06-04-15 11:55, Niels Charlier wrote:
>>> Hi Emanuele,
>>>
>>> Are the geofence refactoring commits going to be pulled in the master
>>> branch in the official repo?
>>> Because I almost have a pull ready for gs-geofence-server but it
>>> depends on those changes being there.
>>>
>>>
>>> Also, I have found a work-around for my eclipse issue. While you can't
>>> manipulate the dependency order of included projects from the GUI,
>>> there is an order inside the config file behind it (.classpath file in
>>> the project dir). The order of the pom doesn't seem to be respected,
>>> but I can manually do it. After running maven eclipse:eclipse, I
>>> manually edit the .classpath file and move the model-internal
>>> dependency above the gs-geofence dependency. That is the best solution
>>> for now, but still a bit annoying. There is another really annoying
>>> thing in eclipse, there is an application-context.xml in test and it
>>> reads it of course.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Niels
>>>
>>> On 02-04-15 13:01, Emanuele Tajariol wrote:
>>>> Hi Niels,
>>>>
>>>>> * Let gs-geofence also use model-internal, but it is probably not
>>>>> desire
>>>>> to have all that unnecessary hibernate stuff loaded.
>>>> Exactly: the split model was created only because gs-geofence did
>>>> import too
>>>> much hibernate stuff inside geoserver.
>>>>
>>>>> * Make them different classes (or in different packages) but use
>>>>> interfaces instead for compatibility? Probably would require lots of
>>>>> refactoring inside geofence.
>>>>> * Can we somehow force geofence-server to use the classes from
>>>>> geofence-model-internal even if both are on the classpath? It seems
>>>>> that
>>>>> java will always use the _first_ on the classpath, but eclipse doesn't
>>>>> recognise an order in project dependencies
>>>> These solutions are quite complex, and would be a workaround for a
>>>> workaround
>>>> (the split model).
>>>> I guess the simpler way would be to only have a single model module,
>>>> and to
>>>> remove the hibernate annotations using the hbm files instead.
>>>> I tried to use the hibernate tools for automatically creating the hbm
>>>> files out
>>>> of the annotations, but they seemed quite bugged. Do you have any
>>>> experience
>>>> with them?
>>>>
>>>>      Cheers,
>>>>      Emanuele
>>>>
>>>> Alle 12:17:37 di Thursday 2 April 2015, Niels Charlier ha scritto:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a practical problem regarding the difference between
>>>>> geofence-model and geofence-model-internal.
>>>>> They both contain the same classes, but geofence-model removes the
>>>>> hibernate annotations from the build.
>>>>>
>>>>> gs-geofence uses geofence-model while gs-geofence-server needs
>>>>> gs-geofence-model-internal. I solved this earlier by putting an
>>>>> exclusion in the geofence-server profile of the web-app pom. The
>>>>> problem
>>>>> is however eclipse. When you do mvn eclipse:eclipse inside web-app,
>>>>> this
>>>>> works fine. However, eclipse doesn't add any of the geoserver
>>>>> modules as
>>>>> "required projects" in the build path, but rather as regular external
>>>>> jar files, so you miss the relationship between the code and this
>>>>> brings
>>>>> inconveniences while programming and debugging.
>>>>>
>>>>> To solve that you have to do eclipse:eclipse from the geoserver source
>>>>> root. But then eclipse doesn't recognise the exclusion... and keeps
>>>>> loading the classes from model. And geofence-server doesn't work
>>>>> without
>>>>> the hibernate annotations.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, do you guys have any ideas for solutions?
>>>>> * Let gs-geofence also use model-internal, but it is probably not
>>>>> desire
>>>>> to have all that unnecessary hibernate stuff loaded.
>>>>> * Make them different classes (or in different packages) but use
>>>>> interfaces instead for compatibility? Probably would require lots of
>>>>> refactoring inside geofence.
>>>>> * Can we somehow force geofence-server to use the classes from
>>>>> geofence-model-internal even if both are on the classpath? It seems
>>>>> that
>>>>> java will always use the _first_ on the classpath, but eclipse doesn't
>>>>> recognise an order in project dependencies
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Niels
>>>>>
>>>>> On 27-03-15 17:16, Emanuele Tajariol wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Niels,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What does this setting do: "Use GeoServer roles to get
>>>>>>> authorizations"?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>       GeofencePage.useRolesToFilter=Use GeoServer roles to get
>>>>>>       authorizations
>>>>>>
>>>>>> it's related to this proposal:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/geosolutions-it/geofence/wiki/Proposal-%233:-GeoSer
>>>>>> ver
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Roles-to-GeoFence-groups-mapping#configuration
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It makes the AccessManager query geofence the authorization not for
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> accessing user, but by the role the user is assigned in GeoServer
>>>>>> See also method setRuleFilterUserOrRole.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If the roles in geoserver are exactly the same as in geofence (as the
>>>>>> current integration work aims to) it should not matter, since the
>>>>>> resulting auths will be the same.
>>>>>> I mean: if the useRolesToFilter is set to true, the user-role matching
>>>>>> will be done in setRuleFilterUserOrRole. If it's set to false, such
>>>>>> matching will be performed inside geofence, using the metod
>>>>>> UserResolver::getRoles
>>>>>>
>>>>>>       Cheers,
>>>>>>       Emanuele
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Alle 16:50:58 di Friday 27 March 2015, Niels Charlier ha scritto:
>>>>>>> Hi Emanuele,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Excellent. What does this setting do: "Use GeoServer roles to get
>>>>>>> authorizations"?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>> Niels
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 27-03-15 14:49, Emanuele Tajariol wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi Niels,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The user/group integration work is that ready or does it still need
>>>>>>>>> work?
>>>>>>>> It's ready. The rule engine needs info about the user, the role and
>>>>>>>> their association. You can provide these info by implementing this
>>>>>>>> interface
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://github.com/etj/geofence/blob/201503_user_role_refact/src/ser
>>>>>>>> vic
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> es /core/services-
>>>>>>>> api/src/main/java/org/geoserver/geofence/spi/UserResolver.java
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> and aliasing this spring bean with the new implementation
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://github.com/etj/geofence/blob/201503_user_role_refact/src/ser
>>>>>>>> vic
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> es /core/services-
>>>>>>>> impl/src/main/resources/applicationContext.xml#L24
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The default UserResolver uses the DAO toward the geofence DB
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://github.com/etj/geofence/blob/201503_user_role_refact/src/ser
>>>>>>>> vic
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> es /core/services-
>>>>>>>> impl/src/main/java/org/geoserver/geofence/services/DefaultUserResolv
>>>>>>>> er.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> j ava
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> but I guess you'll have to return the users and roles actually
>>>>>>>> used in
>>>>>>>> GeoServer.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>        Cheers,
>>>>>>>>        Emanuele
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Alle 21:23:40 di Thursday 26 March 2015, Niels Charlier ha scritto:
>>>>>>>>> On 26-03-15 16:49, Andrea Aime wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Speaking of hibernate, wondering what might happens if geofence
>>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>>> the monitoring hibernate extension are both loaded in GeoServer.
>>>>>>>>> Yeah I haven't tested with the hibernate extension yet. That could
>>>>>>>>> indeed cause more trouble
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> What if the GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR system variable is not defined?
>>>>>>>>>> It's
>>>>>>>>>> not mandatory.
>>>>>>>>>> I guess you could create a subclass of PropertyOverrideConfigurer
>>>>>>>>>> depending on GeoServerResourceLoader and
>>>>>>>>>> get the base directory there.
>>>>>>>>> think
>>>>>>>>> You are right. Something similar has been done in the geofence
>>>>>>>>> module
>>>>>>>>> for the PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer, will use the same principle.
>>>>>>>>> Consider the current version kind of a proof of concept, will still
>>>>>>>>> need to fine-tune it.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The other thing that bother me a bit, but it's GeoFence own fault,
>>>>>>>>>> it's this business of setting up the data source
>>>>>>>>>> inside the Spring context instead of creating it programmatically,
>>>>>>>>>> allowing the data source to be read from some
>>>>>>>>>> config file, and allow its re-configuration at runtime.
>>>>>>>>>> In the long run it would be best if the integrated GeoFence could
>>>>>>>>>> start off H2, but allowed configuration
>>>>>>>>>> to store the rules somewhere else at runtime, without need for
>>>>>>>>>> restarts.
>>>>>>>>> Yeah some of the client settings also require a restart for the
>>>>>>>>> same
>>>>>>>>> reason. The server URL anyway, but that doesn't apply with the
>>>>>>>>> internal server.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The user/group integration work is that ready or does it still need
>>>>>>>>> work?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>>>> Niels
>


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