[jira] [Created] (SLING-6963) Service user declaration based on a set of principal names

["angela (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

angela created SLING-6963:
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             Summary: Service user declaration based on a set of principal names
                 Key: SLING-6963
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-6963
             Project: Sling
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: JCR, Service User Mapper
            Reporter: angela


Currently {{SlingRepository.loginService}} relies on a configuration that maps services/subservices to a single service user by it's name/ID. Heavy usage of this concept over the last years has reveal a couple of findings, we missed when inventing the service user concept:

- it is prone to redundant of permission setup when defining permissions for individual service users that often share common needs while at the same time being responsible for completing distinct special operations (e.g. _read-content_ (common) and _write-special-subtree_ (special operation)
- some services require a combination of different operations reflected by existing groups and we ended up having service users being put into groups in order to avoid permission duplication (ultimately leaving us with somewhat intransparent permission setup for a given service).

Learning from these findings I like would proposed an alternative way of registering service users that would allow for specifying a set of principal names, effectively declaring all tasks a given service is designed to complete. this would allow to re-use existing service users and thus avoid duplication of permission setup for both cases mentioned above.

Also, implementing this alternative mapping would allow to get rid of the double repository login as it is currently present within {{AbstractSlingRepository2#createServiceSession}} and as such have a positive impact on performance.



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