org.wso2.registry.secure
Class SecureRegistry

java.lang.Object
  extended by org.wso2.registry.secure.SecureRegistry

public class SecureRegistry
extends java.lang.Object

Registry implementation to perform authentication and authorization. Each user should use a separate instance of the SecureRegistry initialized with the user name and a back-end Registry. All SecureRegistry instances should be initialized using the same back-end registry implementation. SecureRegistry verifies whether the user has necessary permissions to perform the requested action and delegates the request to the back-end registry if the authorization succeeds. It also sets user name as a thread local variable before delegating the request, so that the back-end registry can use that user name to associate user information with performed operation (e.g. who commented on the resource /projects/abcbank/orders.doc).

Resource path is used as the unique ID of the resource to associate permissions. So when an operation is request on a certain path, we can first check the permissions for that path, without even touching the actual resource. This has a side effect that if a user has requested an operation on a non-existing resource, he gets an unauthorized operation message rather than a resource does not exist message. This is good as we don't want unauthorized users to check if a resource exist in a particular path.


Constructor Summary
SecureRegistry()
           
 
Method Summary
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

SecureRegistry

public SecureRegistry()


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