I do remember bringing up the idea of making processes a first class
citizen in the catalog. Basically come up with a ProcessInfo and extends
ResourceInfo and then be able to use data security to apply access rules to
them. Is that what you're talking about here? I am thinking maybe not?

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 3:53 AM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Andrea Aime <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> And then change the current user interface to work against the property
>> files, and allow the specification or role lists on a per process basis,
>> instead of a simple on/off checkbox.
>> I'm leaning towards the second, what do you think?
>>
>
> As a possible interesting alternative, we can forget about the property
> file, and work off the existing on/off process configuration,
> which is based on the following interface:
>
> public interface ProcessGroupInfo extends Info, Cloneable {
>
>     /**
>      * The process factory class (only means to identify it)
>      */
>     public Class<? extends ProcessFactory> getFactoryClass();
>
>     /**
>      * Sets the process factory class
>      *
>      * @param factoryClass
>      */
>     public void setFactoryClass(Class<? extends ProcessFactory>
> factoryClass);
>
>     /**
>      * True if the factory is enabled, false otherwise
>      *
>      * @return
>      */
>     public boolean isEnabled();
>
>     /**
>      * Enables/disables the factory
>      *
>      * @param enabled
>      */
>     public void setEnabled(boolean enabled);
>
>     /**
>      * The list of processes generated by this factory that needs to be
> filtered out (disabled)
>      *
>      * @return
>      */
>     public List<Name> getFilteredProcesses();
>
>     /**
>      * The metadata map, can contain any sort of information that non core
> plugins might use to
>      * handle information related to this factory
>      *
>      * @return
>      */
>     MetadataMap getMetadata();
>
>     /**
>      * Creares a copy of this class
>      * @return
>      */
>     ProcessGroupInfo clone();
>
> }
>
> In order to maintain backwards compatibility we could extend it so that: t
> has a list of roles that can access it (when enabled).
> And then the list of process names being filtered could be replaced by a
> list of ProcessInfo beans (something that Justin
> was pushing for when we discussed the ability to turn on and off
> processes) that do contain, for the time being,
> a on/off flag, and a list of roles that can access them, but could be
> expanded later to also contain process limits.
>
> It builds on what we have, and keeps this configuration integrated with
> the main WPS config, making it
> also readily available for REST usage.
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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