Hi! I would like to raise a separate thread regarding customers logging in to fineract-cn on their own behalf (to provide customer self-service). Vishwas wrote earlier in another thread: > AFAIK, you cannot do the same on the current micro-services. > The Mifos initiative has another project (Customer Self Service API Gateway) > which allows customer self service by maintaining separate credentials for each customer. > After the customer has been authenticated and authorized at the gateway, > it interfaces with Fineract-CN using a system / back-office user credential .
I didn't find such a project, I think something like this only exists for Fineract 1.x But even if it exists the described design sounds more like a workaround or a "hack" - something that is done to add the functionality to an existing system. Since Fineract-CN is a new platform and it has all the building blocks it should make customer a First-Class citizen [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_citizen ] meaning the customer would represent himself as a user and all the privileges checking systems would make sure the customer is only able to obtain information about himself. I know it adds a lot of complexity (to alredy complex world) but I was wondering if this question has risen earlier and if there have been any design thoughts how it should be implemented (or why it was decided not to implement it). I see Fineract 1.x /MifosX has a nice analysis document about customer self-service here https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Customer+Self-Service I wonder if something exists for Fineract-CN as well. Or if not how could we come up with a similar document how it should be once implemented. Regards Juhan
