Ability to Extend the SecurityProvideImpl Gone

[Tyson Bowman <ty...@gmail.com>]

Hi all
I am trying to extend the SecurityProvider and PermissionProvider for a
project and the code was working prior to them upgrading their oak version.
After some investigation it appears that class was removed as a service and
the registration class was added. There doesn't seem to be much
documentation or explanation or this change and would love some advice or
examples of how to ensure your security provider gets registered. Also
there have been a few comments about this causing problems for others so
hopefully this can be helpful for others as well.

This change
https://github.com/apache/jackrabbit-oak/commit/81614454d9b21977ad1930c71441ad8f577fe013#diff-8914e351c2be2e543280ae9c9ba54770


Thanks

Tyson

Re: Ability to Extend the SecurityProvideImpl Gone

[Angela Schreiber <an...@adobe.com>]

hi tyson

the 'SecurityProvideImpl' has been replaced by a more robust
approach that makes sure the 'SecurityProvider' on gets
registered as service once all mandatory security modules
are ready. this also allows assert that the repository
gets properly initialised.

you may find additional information in the following documentation
section:

http://jackrabbit.apache.org/oak/docs/security/introduction.html

the 'SecurityProviderRegistration' is key to the understanding of
security related OSGi setup, while the 'SecurityProvideImpl' only
remains in the code base for non-OSGi setups such as we have in the
unit tests.

hope that helps
angela


On 22/04/16 12:42, "Tyson Bowman" <ty...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi all
>I am trying to extend the SecurityProvider and PermissionProvider for a
>project and the code was working prior to them upgrading their oak
>version.
>After some investigation it appears that class was removed as a service
>and
>the registration class was added. There doesn't seem to be much
>documentation or explanation or this change and would love some advice or
>examples of how to ensure your security provider gets registered. Also
>there have been a few comments about this causing problems for others so
>hopefully this can be helpful for others as well.
>
>This change
>https://github.com/apache/jackrabbit-oak/commit/81614454d9b21977ad1930c714
>41ad8f577fe013#diff-8914e351c2be2e543280ae9c9ba54770
>
>
>Thanks
>
>Tyson