How can you suppress Managed Service Factory from being displayed on Configurations tab?

["Rodgers, Hugh" <hu...@lmco.com>]

Hello -

We have Managed Service Factories (MSFs) that we programmatically create and configure at runtime. We do not want these MSFs to be displayed on the Felix Web console's Configurations tab to prevent user from attempting to modify these MSFs. We had achieved this by not specifying a OGSI-INF/metatype/metatype.xml file for these MSFs, but with our recent upgrade of Felix these MSFs are now displayed on the Configuration tab. (possibly due to FELIX-3227 ticket's fix).

How can we suppress these MSFs from being displayed on the Configuration tab? If this is no longer possible, is there a way to make all of the fields in the metatype.xml be non-editable?

Thanks -

Hugh

Re: How can you suppress Managed Service Factory from being displayed on Configurations tab?

[Marcel Offermans <ma...@luminis.nl>]

Authentication/authorization should be a separate concern.

I agree with Felix, WebConsole was never designed as an end-user tool, it is technical in nature and will allow end-users to screw things up in many interesting ways.

What you need is a layer on top of Configuration Admin that will take into account users and their roles and show/hide/make read-only configuration data based on that.

Greetings, Marcel


On Jun 25, 2013, at 12:43 PM, Felix Meschberger <fm...@adobe.com> wrote:

> Hi Hugh
> 
> The Web Console Configuration Manager tab allows for changing all configuration stored in the Configuration Admin service and/or described by the Metatype Service. Hence existing configuration is always displayed even if not described.
> 
> There is also currently no such thing as read-only configuration. Because at then end of the day: everything can be stored in a Configuration object and the Configuration Admin service does not care about it (as long as the data types of the configuration are supported).
> 
> Now, the Web Console is not destined at regular passers-by users but at system administrators which can be expected to be knowledgable. So I don't this is such a huge problem -- but that's me ;-)
> 
> To your question: While you cannot hide the configurations as of today, there would be a number of options:
> 
> (a) define an empty descriptor file for the factory PID. This will then just show empty forms for the configuration. Such configurations can still be "unbound" or removed.
> 
> (b) we add a Web Console configuration option to select whether to show or hide existing configurations for which no Metatype descriptor exists (such an option does not exist yet and would be an extension)
> 
> Regards
> Felix
> 
> Am 25.06.2013 um 00:27 schrieb Rodgers, Hugh:
> 
>> Hello -
>> 
>> We have Managed Service Factories (MSFs) that we programmatically create and configure at runtime. We do not want these MSFs to be displayed on the Felix Web console's Configurations tab to prevent user from attempting to modify these MSFs. We had achieved this by not specifying a OGSI-INF/metatype/metatype.xml file for these MSFs, but with our recent upgrade of Felix these MSFs are now displayed on the Configuration tab. (possibly due to FELIX-3227 ticket's fix).
>> 
>> How can we suppress these MSFs from being displayed on the Configuration tab? If this is no longer possible, is there a way to make all of the fields in the metatype.xml be non-editable?
>> 
>> Thanks -
>> 
>> Hugh
>> 
> 
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Re: How can you suppress Managed Service Factory from being displayed on Configurations tab?

[Felix Meschberger <fm...@adobe.com>]

Hi Hugh

The Web Console Configuration Manager tab allows for changing all configuration stored in the Configuration Admin service and/or described by the Metatype Service. Hence existing configuration is always displayed even if not described.

There is also currently no such thing as read-only configuration. Because at then end of the day: everything can be stored in a Configuration object and the Configuration Admin service does not care about it (as long as the data types of the configuration are supported).

Now, the Web Console is not destined at regular passers-by users but at system administrators which can be expected to be knowledgable. So I don't this is such a huge problem -- but that's me ;-)

To your question: While you cannot hide the configurations as of today, there would be a number of options:

(a) define an empty descriptor file for the factory PID. This will then just show empty forms for the configuration. Such configurations can still be "unbound" or removed.

(b) we add a Web Console configuration option to select whether to show or hide existing configurations for which no Metatype descriptor exists (such an option does not exist yet and would be an extension)

Regards
Felix

Am 25.06.2013 um 00:27 schrieb Rodgers, Hugh:

> Hello -
> 
> We have Managed Service Factories (MSFs) that we programmatically create and configure at runtime. We do not want these MSFs to be displayed on the Felix Web console's Configurations tab to prevent user from attempting to modify these MSFs. We had achieved this by not specifying a OGSI-INF/metatype/metatype.xml file for these MSFs, but with our recent upgrade of Felix these MSFs are now displayed on the Configuration tab. (possibly due to FELIX-3227 ticket's fix).
> 
> How can we suppress these MSFs from being displayed on the Configuration tab? If this is no longer possible, is there a way to make all of the fields in the metatype.xml be non-editable?
> 
> Thanks -
> 
> Hugh
> 


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