[Registry-dev] Re: Initial Spring JPA ORMRegistry

[Chathura C. Ekanayake]

Hi Norman,

We are using WSO2 User Manager 
(http://wso2.org/projects/commons/user-manager) library for user 
authentication and authorization in the Registry.
It provides an API (org.wso2.usermanager.Realm) to manage users and 
permissions. So it is possible to switch the Registry persistence 
implementation to ORM and still use the user manager API to handle users 
and permissions. You can create an instance of the ORMRegistry and 
construct a SecureRegistry instance by passing the ORMRegistry instance 
to the constructor. Then the SecureRegistry will handle all 
authentication and authorization work and delegate valid requests to the 
ORMRegistry.

Take a look at the "public void init(ServletConfig config)" method 
org.wso2.registry.servlet.RegistryServlet class for Registry 
instantiation steps.
org.wso2.registry.secure.SecureRegistry is the secure registry 
implementation which wraps around persistence registry impl to provide 
authentication and authorization.

I will be able to comment more on this if you can attach your code as a 
patch file in Registry JIRA (https://wso2.org/jira/browse/REGISTRY).

Thanks,
Chathura

Norman Barker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't normally follow up to my own thread but I immediately ran into
> a problem with the UserManager.  I think I have worked round this now
> by keeping JDBC for user authentication but there seems to be a
> dependency on JDBC for the user manager access.  I tried to use acegi
> for spring and the authenticator class but it requires an authorizer
> and in particular methods such as getAllRoles which I don't think is
> compatible.  What are the plans for  user authentication within the
> registry?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Norman
>
>
> On Jan 7, 2008 11:16 AM, Norman Barker <norman.barker at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have written the initial ORMRegistry now using Spring JPA and
>> Hibernate (though it should port to OpenJPA etc.) - to be able to test
>> it out it is probably easiest to use a download of JBoss.  How do I
>> get this code into the Registry SVN (or JIRA)?
>>
>> Also I would really like to test this out before submitting it, is
>> there a page describing the complete protocol for the registry and is
>> it possible to test the registry using cURL?
>>
>> Personally I think the code now looks a lot cleaner, and all the
>> database crud (excuse the pun) is taken away.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Norman
>>
>>     
>
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