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[Lars Helge Øverland <lars@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Victor,

that sounds good, thanks for the feedback.

No we will not introduce breaking changes here in terms of protecting
currently open namespaces.

regards,

Lars


On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Victor Garcia <vgarciabnz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> thank you for the clarifications. They are very helpful to figure out how
> access control is managed in dataStore resource. So just to confirm that my
> thoughts are right:
>
> - Access to reserved namespaces is only allowed to users with access to
> the corresponding app.
> - Access to non-reserved namespaces is allowed to everybody. I have
> checked this in demo server: a user with "Guest" role can create and read
> an arbitrary namespace.
>
> Is there plan to modify this behavior in the future, I mean, to protect
> non-reserved namespaces? We are about to build an app that make use of
> "public" or non-reserved namespaces, and it is important for us to know if
> the access control is going to change.
>
>



> Thanks!
>
> Víctor
>
> On 20 June 2016 at 15:02, Michael Mwebaze <michael.mwebaze@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Stian,
>>
>> I wasn't able to find any documentation on specifying a namespace in the
>> manifest file. The links below were particularly helpful and I looked at
>> the java doc for AppManager api.
>>
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/+spec/general-purpose-data-store
>>
>> https://code.launchpad.net/~stian-sandvold/dhis2/KeyJsonValue
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> On 20 June 2016 at 08:33, Stian Sandvold <stian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> seems like the documentation for specifying a namespace have
>>> disappeared, I will add it back in when I get a chance!
>>>
>>> In the mean time, it should be as simple as:
>>>
>>> “activities”: {
>>> “dhis”: {
>>> “namespace”: “my_name_space”
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I also see that there are some other discrepancies with the
>>> documentation regarding the namespaces, which I will fix:
>>>
>>>  - The name of the namespace reserved by an app does not need to be
>>> similar to the app it self.
>>> This way, different apps can share the same namespace, as long as the
>>> user has the correct access to the apps.
>>> - A namespace can only be reserved once
>>> If you are trying to share a namespace between multiple apps, only one
>>> of them can reserve it in the manifest, and users of the different apps all
>>> need to be able to use the app with the reservation.
>>>
>>>
>>> ——
>>> Stian Sandvold
>>> Software developer, DHIS 2
>>> University of Oslo
>>> http://www.dhis2.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 20 Jun 2016, at 12:25, David Siang Fong Oh <doh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Is there any documentation about specifying a namespace in the manifest
>>> file? I've tried searching the DHIS2 developer manual and the W3C manifest
>>> documentation but can't find anything.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> -doh
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Michael Mwebaze <
>>> michael.mwebaze@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Stian,
>>>>
>>>> I finally figured it out.
>>>>
>>>> On 20 June 2016 at 02:01, Stian Sandvold <stian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> defining namespaces in the manifest file only restricts access to the
>>>>> namespace, it does not create it.
>>>>>
>>>>> The namespace will appear as soon as you add some data to it. The way
>>>>> the dataStore is designed, a namespace only exists when one or more keys
>>>>> are present in it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope this help, and let me know if you need any more help with the
>>>>> dataStore.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 20 June 2016 at 06:47, Michael Mwebaze <michael.mwebaze@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am trying to make use of the dataStore resource for my custom app
>>>>>> but can't seem to add namespace to it. In the manifest file, I have set
>>>>>> activities.dhis.namespace property and in the tomcat logs I do see that the
>>>>>> namespace and its value is being read. However
>>>>>> http://localhost:8181/dhis/api/dataStore is still empty i.e [ ]. Has
>>>>>> anyone come across this issue? I am using DHIS 2.22 build 22027.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Michael
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>> ——
>>>>> Stian Sandvold
>>>>> Software developer, DHIS 2
>>>>> University of Oslo
>>>>> http://www.dhis2.org
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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