[Building Sakai] Effecting permissions when using role switcher

[Stephen Marquard]

This is how the portal does it:

String roleswitchvalue =
SecurityService.getUserEffectiveRole(SiteService.siteReference(siteId));
// checks the session for a role swap value

but it will be null (most of the time) unless the user has explicitly
switched roles in the site using the "view as" functionality.

Regards
Stephen 
 

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>>> David Wafula <davidwaf at gmail.com> 12/1/2011 12:15 PM >>> 
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Stephen Marquard <
stephen.marquard at uct.ac.za> wrote:

>
> Also you would need to pass a real site id - it would be meaningless
to
> set the "view as" role in a template authzgroup like
> !group.template.course.
>
>

I have tried this, still no luck:

String currentSiteId = toolManager.getCurrentPlacement().getContext();
String
effectiveRole=securityService.getUserEffectiveRole(currentSiteId);

effectiveRole is still null.

I even tried:

 String currentSiteId =
toolManager.getCurrentPlacement().getContext();
 Site site = siteService.getSite(currentSiteId);
 String idToUse=site.getId();

String effectiveRole=securityService.getUserEffectiveRole(idToUse);

Still null.

And this:

AuthzGroup ag = authzGroupService.getAuthzGroup(currentSiteId);
String effectiveRole=securityService.getUserEffectiveRole(ag,getId());

Null.

Am sure am missing something somewhere.

-- 
David Wafula





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