Re: Problem using Struts-menu with role

On Aug 23, 2005, at 11:34 PM, Sunil_Sahu-g6+mqz/[email protected] wrote:

>
> Hi Matt,
>
> I am trying to configure struts-menu in my sample applcation but  
> when i am using "permissons" attribute as "rolesAdapter" in my jsp,  
> those menu-items in menu-config.xml which have no "roles" attribute  
> is shown in browser.
>
> I have configured my menu-config.xml in WEB-INF directory.  
> Following is the content of menu-config.xml:
>
> <MenuConfig>
>     <Displayers>
>         <Displayer name="ListMenu"  
> type="net.sf.navigator.displayer.ListMenuDisplayer"/>
>     </Displayers>
>     <Menus>
>         <!-- ====================   Administrator Menu    
> =========================== -->
>         <Menu name="AdminMenu" title="menu.admin"  
> description="Admin Menu" roles="admin">
>             <Item name="am.viewUsers" title="menu.admin.users"  
> page="/blank.jsp"/>
>             <Item name="ReloadContext" title="menu.admin.reload"  
> page="/blank1.jsp"/>
>         </Menu>
>         <!-- ====================   User Menu    
> =========================== -->
>         <Menu name="UserMenu" title="menu.user" description="User  
> Menu" page="/blank2.jsp" roles="admin,ROLE_USER"/>
>         <!-- ====================   Upload File Menu    
> =========================== -->
>         <Menu name="FileUpload" title="menu.selectFile"  
> description="File Upload" page="/blank3.jsp"/>
>     </Menus>
> </MenuConfig>
>
> Following the content of left.jsp where i am using this menu  
> configuration:
> <%@ page language="java" pageEncoding="UTF-8" contentType="text/ 
> html;charset=utf-8" %>
> <%@ taglib uri="http://struts-menu.sf.net/tag-el" prefix="menu" %>
>
> <div id="menu">
> <menu:useMenuDisplayer name="ListMenu" permissions="rolesAdapter">
>     <menu:displayMenu name="AdminMenu"/>
>     <menu:displayMenu name="UserMenu"/>
>     <menu:displayMenu name="FileUpload"/>
> </menu:useMenuDisplayer>
> </div>
>
> Following entry i have made in my Applicatiion-Context-Security.xml:
>     <bean id="filterInvocationInterceptor"  
> class="net.sf.acegisecurity.intercept.web.FilterSecurityInterceptor">
>         <property name="authenticationManager"><ref  
> local="authenticationManager"/></property>
>         <property name="accessDecisionManager"><ref  
> local="accessDecisionManager"/></property>
>          <property name="objectDefinitionSource">
>             <value>
>                 CONVERT_URL_TO_LOWERCASE_BEFORE_COMPARISON
>                 PATTERN_TYPE_APACHE_ANT
>                 /*.jsp=admin,ROLE_USER
>             </value>
>         </property>
>     </bean>
>
>
> In the browser only "FileUpload" menu-items is getting displayed,  
> rest menu items are not getting displayed when log-on to applicaton  
> through "admin" rights.
>
> Is there any other configuration required to run struts-menu with  
> Role. Where i have to configure "rolesAdapter". I read somewhere  
> that we should define this "rolesAdapter" in session or request  
> scope but in Appfuse also i didn't seen anywhere this setting but  
> in Appfuse it is working fine.
> I am stuck now please give me your suggestion.

If you're using Acegi, you have to configure a  
ContextHolderAwareRequestFilter as part of your filterChain bean.   
This will allow request.isUserInRole() to work.  AppFuse does this  
and calls it remoteUserFilter.

Hope this helps,

Matt


>
> Thanks & Regards
> Sunil Sahu
> Sr. Software Engineer