[Building Sakai] Authorization of new tools

[Hui Jin]

The magic worked. 

Thank you,

Hui

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Swinsburg [mailto:steve.swinsburg at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 5:52 PM
To: Hui Jin
Cc: Jon Gorrono; sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Authorization of new tools

Hi Hui,

Have a look in the Admin Realms tool, find a site and add the new  
function to a role in a site. See if any records are created then.

cheers,
Steve



On 17/10/2009, at 12:56 AM, Hui Jin wrote:

> I have tried both FunctionManager and the <function> tag in my xml  
> file. But the it doesn't create any record in SAKAI_REALM_FUNCTION  
> table. I can see my function is registered with the FunctionManager.  
> What it does is that put the function in the list  
> m_registeredFunctions. Did I miss anything?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hui
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Gorrono [mailto:jpgorrono at ucdavis.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 8:24 PM
> To: Steve Swinsburg
> Cc: Hui Jin; sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Authorization of new tools
>
> You can also use the tool registration xml file to register
> functions... this is the xml file in the directory named 'tools' in
> the web root of the tool:
>
> <registration>
>  <function name="user.message.via.sms"/>
> .
> .
> .
>
> </registration>
>
> For obscure (to me) reasons, this method is considered less ideal than
> programmatic registration.
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Steve Swinsburg
> <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> You register the new permissions with the authz.api.FunctionManager.
>>
>> Rule of thumb: Don't insert anything manually into any database table
>> that you don't control in your own tool. If you need to do it,  
>> there's
>> an API.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Steve
>>
>> On 09/10/2009, at 1:39 AM, Hui Jin wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm developing a new tool in Sakai. I would like to use Sakai
>>> authorization for the tool so I can assign permissions to users. I
>>> guess
>>> all the functions need to be put into table SAKAI_REALM_FUNCTION in
>>> order to appear in the list when we assign permissions to roles in  
>>> the
>>> realm. But I couldn't find a tool to insert the tool function into
>>> SAKAI_REALM_FUNCTION. It's not good doing this manually. Can  
>>> somebody
>>> guide me through this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Hui
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