Bug 1145512

Summary:	Information about the read-only functions in API Overview.
Product:	Red Hat Satellite 5	Reporter:	Martin Korbel <mkorbel>
Component:	API	Assignee:	Grant Gainey <ggainey>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
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Description Martin Korbel 2014-09-23 08:45:06 UTC

Description of problem:
I think, we need some informations in API Overview, which of functions are accessible for the read-only users. Because not all getter functions are accessible for read-only users (few examples  are below).

Here is some examples:
packages.provider.list
satellite.getCertificateExpirationDate
sync.slave.getSlaves
org.listSoftwareEntitlements
org.listSystemEntitlements
org.listOrgs
sync.master.getMasters
user.external.listExternalGroupToRoleMaps
user.external.getKeepTemporaryRoles
user.external.getUseOrgUnit
user.external.getDefaultOrg
...


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Sat 5.7 (spacewalk-html-2.3.2-3.el6sat, spacewalk-java-2.3.8-15.el6sat)

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open page https://<fqdn>/rhn/apidoc/handlers/PackagesProviderHandler.jsp

Actual results:
no informations about read-only functions.

Expected results:
some  icons or tags, what say "This functions is also accessible for the read-only user."

Additional info:

Comment 1 Grant Gainey 2014-09-25 19:26:13 UTC

Read-only users have access to any API that their other Satellite permissions give them access to.  org.listOrgs, for example, is limited to only Satellite Administrators.  If you have a read-only user who is a Satellite Admin, they have access to that API method.

read-only means that, no matter what your other privileges, you may not access the web-ui, and may only access API methods whose names start with get/list/is. Access to those methods is then further limited by the user's regular Satellite privileges.

It sounds like what we're really asking for here, is an icon per-method for which privilege it requires.   That's going to take some doing, since each method makes up its own mind about what privs it requires.

Comment 2 Martin Korbel 2014-10-01 12:16:26 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1147832 ***