com.esri.arcgis.server
Interface IPermissionsManager

All Superinterfaces:

Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

IPermissionsManagerProxy, ServerObjectManager

public interface IPermissionsManager
extends Serializable

Provides managerial access to the Permissions Store.

Description

IPermissionsManager provides methods to query the state of Allow and Deny rules on operations on ArcGIS Server resources.

The IPermissionsManager interface can be obtained by a query interface with the IServerObjectManager interface.

A list of security model concepts is useful here.

• User - An individual identified by a unique user name who wants to consume resources provided by ArcGIS Server. Users are stored within a User Store which may be a database, the active directory on a Windows Server or an LDAP sever. All authentication of users takes place in the web tier.
• Role - A collection of users based on functional, departmental or classification groupings (e.g. Planners, Editors, Classified, Unclassified, etc.). A role can be assigned a permission to use or invoke operations on a resource. Roles are stored within a Role Store which may be a database, the Active Directory on a Windows Server or an LDAP server.
• Principal - A term that denotes either a User or a Role.
• Resource - An item or object that is to be secured. In a 9.3 ArcGIS Server, resources are web applications and GIS services and server folders containing GIS services.
• Operation - An action or method that can be invoked on a secured resource. At 9.3, no distinction is made between operations and the only valid value, "*", is used to denote all actions.
• Permission - The ability of a role to use or invoke operations on a specific resource.

Permissions are assigned in a Continuous Inheritance model. A child resource inherits permissions from its parent resource and the child can be changed to differ from the parent. Changing the permission on the parent for a specific user/role restores inheritance to match the parent recursively; all children will be changed to match the parent.

Remarks

The following state of the role-based security model of the ArcGIS Server is exposed by the methods of IPermissionsAdmin :

Query role-based ArcGIS Server security:

• Check whether the supplied principal has permissions for all operations on a specific resource.
• Get all of the principals that have permissions for all operations on a specific resource.
• Check whether any descendents of the specified resource have permissions that differ.

When To Use

Use the IPermissionsManager interface when your application needs to query the state of role-based permissions on an ArcGIS Server.

If your application needs to connect to the server to perform changes to the role-based ArcGIS Server security model, use the IPermissionsAdmin interface instead.

Product Availability

Available with ArcGIS Engine, ArcGIS Desktop, and ArcGIS Server.

Method Summary

boolean	checkForDescendentsWithDifferentPermissions(String principal, String resource, String operation) Checks whether the specified principal has different permissions among the descendents of the specified parent resource/operation combination.
boolean	checkPermission(String principal, String resource, String operation) Checks whether the specified principal has permission to perform the given operation on the indicated resource.
IEnumBSTR	getPrincipalsWithPermissionOnResource(String resource, String operation) Enumerates all principals having permission to perform the specified operation on the given resource.

Method Detail

checkPermission

boolean checkPermission(String principal,
                        String resource,
                        String operation)
                        throws IOException,
                               AutomationException

Checks whether the specified principal has permission to perform the given operation on the indicated resource.

Remarks

Use the CheckPermissions method to query the server object manager for whether the given roles have permissions to perform all operations on an indicated resource.

Product Availability

Available with ArcGIS Engine, ArcGIS Desktop, and ArcGIS Server.

Parameters:

principal - The principal (in)

resource - The resource (in)

operation - The operation (in)

Returns:

The pbRes

Throws:

IOException - If there are interop problems.

AutomationException - If the ArcObject component throws an exception.

getPrincipalsWithPermissionOnResource

IEnumBSTR getPrincipalsWithPermissionOnResource(String resource,
                                                String operation)
                                                throws IOException,
                                                       AutomationException

Enumerates all principals having permission to perform the specified operation on the given resource.

Remarks

Use the GetPrincipalsWithPermissionsOnResource method to query the server object manager for the roles that have permissions for all operations on the indicated resource.

Product Availability

Available with ArcGIS Engine, ArcGIS Desktop, and ArcGIS Server.

Parameters:

resource - The resource (in)

operation - The operation (in)

Returns:

A reference to a com.esri.arcgis.system.IEnumBSTR

Throws:

IOException - If there are interop problems.

AutomationException - If the ArcObject component throws an exception.

checkForDescendentsWithDifferentPermissions

boolean checkForDescendentsWithDifferentPermissions(String principal,
                                                    String resource,
                                                    String operation)
                                                    throws IOException,
                                                           AutomationException

Checks whether the specified principal has different permissions among the descendents of the specified parent resource/operation combination.

Remarks

Use the CheckForDescendentsWithDifferentPermissions method to query the server object manager as to whether the indicated resource has children that have permissions with different permissions.

Product Availability

Available with ArcGIS Engine, ArcGIS Desktop, and ArcGIS Server.

Parameters:

principal - The principal (in)

resource - The resource (in)

operation - The operation (in)

Returns:

The pbRes

Throws:

IOException - If there are interop problems.

AutomationException - If the ArcObject component throws an exception.