[Building Sakai] Getting a permission to download the resources from the site which the user does not belong to

[Steve Swinsburg]

I think you are going to need to get the file in the same request as you add the security advisor. You can use the content hosting service to retrieve the file for you.

Cheers
Steve

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On 14/01/2012, at 0:09, "Suparoek Leesaen" <sleesaen at samoo.es> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I'm currently developing a tool which a special user needs to be able to
> access the resources from other users's personal resources. I was able to
> retrieve the url of the particular resource but when I tried to redirect
> the user to that url, I was notified "Access to the specified resource ()
> has been forbidden".
> 
> This is basically my code for downloading the resources:
> 
>    final String fileUrl = getFileUrl();
> 
>        Link downloadFileLink = new Link("downloadFile")
>        {
>            @Override
>            public void onClick()
>            {
>                securityService.pushAdvisor(new SecurityAdvisor()
>                {
>                    public SecurityAdvice isAllowed(String userId, String function,
> String reference)
>                    {
>                        return SecurityAdvice.ALLOWED;
>                    }
> 
>                });
>                 getRequestCycle().setRequestTarget(new
> RedirectRequestTarget(fileUrl));
>                 securityService.popAdvisor();
>            }
>        };
> 
> As you may be able to see, I activated pushAdvisor before redirecting to
> the download page. I also checked with contentHosting#allowGetResource and
> I got the expected boolean values. What have I done wrong here?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Suparoek Leesaen
> 
> 
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