topic Re: Search files via Lucene & filter results by User Permission in Alfresco Archive

Search files via Lucene & filter results by User Permission

junieboy — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:46:02 GMT

Hi,I'm working on the search capability using Alfresco's Lucene search API through web services, mainly searching files using metadata (aspects defined in a custom dynamic model). Is it possible to restrict your query/search results with the permissions of the user to the file/space? We don't want t

Re: Search files via Lucene & filter results by User Permission

loftux — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:29:12 GMT

This is the default behaviour, search is evaluated using the permissions for the logged in user.
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Search

Re: Search files via Lucene & filter results by User Permission

junieboy — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:09:52 GMT

This is the default behaviour, search is evaluated using the permissions for the logged in user.
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Search

Hi Loftux,

What if I am using a generic account to authenticate? Is there a way to leverage this kind of behaviour? Assuming I have a web application which uses the Alfresco web services API (Lucene Search) in the backend but the account used to authenticate to Alfresco is a generic account. Thanks.

Re: Search files via Lucene & filter results by User Permission

loftux — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:32:08 GMT

There is runAs functionality, see http://dev.alfresco.com/resource/docs/java/repository/org/alfresco/repo/security/authentication/AuthenticationUtil.html
Haven't used it myself, try searching the forums for more detailed info http://www.google.com/search?q=site:forums.alfresco.com+runas+java

Re: Search files via Lucene & filter results by User Permission

junieboy — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:08:28 GMT

There is runAs functionality, see http://dev.alfresco.com/resource/docs/java/repository/org/alfresco/repo/security/authentication/AuthenticationUtil.html
Haven't used it myself, try searching the forums for more detailed info http://www.google.com/search?q=site:forums.alfresco.com+runas+java

Is it possible to run this class with the web services API? Thanks in advance!

Re: Search files via Lucene & filter results by User Permission

junieboy — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:09:40 GMT

There is runAs functionality, see http://dev.alfresco.com/resource/docs/java/repository/org/alfresco/repo/security/authentication/AuthenticationUtil.html
Haven't used it myself, try searching the forums for more detailed info http://www.google.com/search?q=site:forums.alfresco.com+runas+java

Is it possible to run this org.alfresco.repo.security.AuthenticationUtil class with the web services API? Thanks in advance!