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Managing Permissions with APIs

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Last updated: May 25, 2016
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The following section describes the Remote Authorization Manager API and the operations that come with it. 

Permissions can be assigned to user roles. The permission is an authorization to perform a specific action on a resource. For instance, a user role can have permission (i.e., authorization) to add and delete (i.e., actions) service providers (i.e., the resource). The following set of actions can be performed on a resource.

  • get
  • add
  • delete
  • edit
  • login
  • man_config
  • man_lc_config
  • man_sec
  • up_serv
  • man_serv
  • man_media
  • mon_sys
  • del_id
  • authorize
  • inv_ser
  • ui_execute 
  • subscribe
  • publish
  • consume
  • change_permission
  • browse
  • sqs_send_message
  • sqs_receive_message
  • sqs_delete_message
  • sqs_change_message_visibility
  • sqs_get_queue_attributes

The following operations are available in this API:

authorizeRole

This function authorizes the given role to perform the specified action on the given resource.

Input parameters

ParameterDescription
roleNameThe name of the role (e.g., "role1")
resourceIdThe resource path (e.g., "/permission/admin/login")
actionThe action name of the action to be performed on the resource (e.g., "ui.execute")



clearAllRoleAuthorization

This function clears all authorizations of the role.

Input parameters

ParameterDescription
roleNameThe name of the role (e.g., "role1")



clearResourceAuthorizations

This function clears all the authorizations for the given resource.

Input parameters

ParameterDescription
resourceIdThe resource path (e.g., "/permission/admin/login")



clearRoleActionOnAllResources

This function removes the authorization from the role to perform the specified action on all the resources.

Input parameters

ParameterDescription
actionThe action name of the action to be performed on the resource (e.g., "ui.execute")



clearRoleAuthorization

This function clear the authorization of the specified role to perform the given action on the resource.

Input parameters

ParameterDescription
roleNameThe name of the role (e.g., "role1")
resourceIdThe resource path (e.g., "/permission/admin/login")
actionThe action name of the action to be performed on the resource (e.g., "ui.execute")



denyRole

This function removes the authorization of the role to perform the given action on the specified resource.

Input parameters

ParameterDescription
roleNameThe name of the role (e.g., "role1")
resourceIdThe resource path (e.g., "/permission/admin/login")
actionThe action name of the action to be performed on the resource (e.g., "ui.execute")



getAllowedRolesForResource

This function retrieves the list of authorized roles to perform the given action on the specified resource.

Input parameters

ParameterDescription
resourceIdThe resource path (e.g., "/permission/admin/login")
actionThe action name of the action to be performed on the resource (e.g., "ui.execute")



getAllowedUIResourcesForUser

This function retrieves the list of UI resources in the specified root patch for which the user has authorization. 

Input parameters

ParameterDescription
userNameThe username of the specific user (e.g., "admin")
permissionRootPathThe permission root path



isRoleAuthorized

This function checks whether the given role is authorized to perform the action on the specified resource.

Input parameters

ParameterDescription
roleNameThe name of the role (e.g., "role1")
resourceIdThe resource path (e.g., "/permission/admin/login")
actionThe action name of the action to be performed on the resource (e.g., "ui.execute")