[ome-devel] Using omero.gateway.Gateway for sudo-connections

[Dominik Lindner (Staff)]

Hi Christian,

it should work when you set the user via SecurityContext.setExperimenter() and set the sudo flag via SecurityContext.sudo().
Then operations using this SecurityContext will be performed in the user context.

I’ll have to check if we have a working code example in the docs somewhere.

Regards,
Dominik


> On 15 Apr 2016, at 11:47, Christian Carsten Sachs <c.sachs at fz-juelich.de> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to connect to OMERO via Java using a sudo connection, i.e.
> login as an admin user, and then perform actions as another user.
>
> While there is example code at
> https://github.com/openmicroscopy/openmicroscopy/blob/master/examples/OmeroClients/sudo.java
> the code 'manually' establishes a connection, while the current
> developer documentation urges to use the omero.gateway.Gateway class to
> manage the connection (as far as I read, this is the modern and
> recommended way).
>
> Is there any way to use omero.gateway.Gateway for a sudo connection?
>
> I played around with something like this,
>
> adminUser = gateway.connect(ADMIN_CREDENTIALS);
>
> adminCtx = new SecurityContext(adminUser.getGroupId());
>
> user =
> gateway.getFacility(AdminFacility.class).lookupExperimenter(adminCtx,
> "normalUserName");
>
> ctx = new SecurityContext(user.getGroupId());
>
> but using ctx lateron fails; I assume the necessary services are not
> properly started/connected, what gateway would normally do upon login;
> unfortunately I don't seem to find a way to force the gateway object to
> do this lateron for another user ...
>
> I looked around a bit and have some ideas how it might be done manually
> ... within omero.gateway.Gateway, but unfortunately as the necessary
> variables appear private I can't really access that from outside code.
>
> Best regards,
> Christian Sachs
>
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