Extension point permissions

In component org.nuxeo.ecm.core.security.SecurityService

Documentation

Extension point to register permission definitions or override existing permissions.

Example to define a single atomic permissions that are not meant to be displayed in the rights management screen of folders:

    <permission name="Browse"/>
    <permission name="ReadVersion"/>
    <permission name="ReadProperties"/>
    <permission name="ReadChildren"/>
    <permission name="ReadLifeCycle"/>
    <permission name="ReviewParticipant"/>

Example to define a compound permission that holds many related atomic permissions into a single high level (role-like) permission:

    <permission name="Read">
        <include>Browse</include>
        <include>ReadVersion</include>
        <include>ReadProperties</include>
        <include>ReadChildren</include>
        <include>ReadLifeCycle</include>
        <include>ReviewParticipant</include>
    </permission>

Note that each of the included permissions should have been previously registered with their on <permission/> declaration.

It is later possible to override that definition in another contribution to that extension-point to add a new permission 'CustomPerm' and remove 'ReviewParticipant':

    <permission name="CustomPerm"/>
    <permission name="Read">
        <include>CustomPerm</include>
        <remove>ReviewParticipant</remove>
    </permission>

Eventually the permissions declaration also accept 'alias' tags to handle backward compatibility with deprecated permissions:

    <permission name="ReadVersion">
        <documentation>
            The Version permission is deprecated since its name is ambiguous,
            use ReadPermission instead.
          </documentation>
        <alias>Version</alias>
    </permission>

NB: the alias feature is parsed by the extension point but the underlying SecurityManager implementation does not leverage it yet.

Contribution Descriptors

Class: org.nuxeo.ecm.core.security.PermissionDescriptor

Existing Contributions

Contributions are presented in the same order as the registration order on this extension point. This order is displayed before the contribution name, in brackets.

<extension point="permissions" target="org.nuxeo.ecm.core.security.SecurityService">

    <permission name="Browse"/>
    <permission name="ReadProperties">
      <include>Browse</include>
    </permission>
    <permission name="ReadChildren"/>
    <permission name="ReadLifeCycle"/>
    <permission name="ReviewParticipant"/>
    <permission name="ReadSecurity"/>

    <permission name="WriteProperties"/>
    <permission name="ReadVersion"/>

    <permission name="WriteVersion">
       <include>WriteProperties</include>
    </permission>

    <permission name="Version">
       <include>ReadVersion</include>
       <include>WriteVersion</include>
    </permission>

    <permission name="Read">
      <include>Browse</include>
      <include>ReadVersion</include>
      <include>ReadProperties</include>
      <include>ReadChildren</include>
      <include>ReadLifeCycle</include>
      <include>ReadSecurity</include>
      <include>ReviewParticipant</include>
    </permission>

    <permission name="AddChildren"/>
    <permission name="RemoveChildren"/>
    <permission name="Remove"/>
    <permission name="ManageWorkflows"/>
    <permission name="WriteLifeCycle"/>
    <permission name="Unlock"/>

    <permission name="Remove">
      <documentation>
        NXP-10929: necessary to follow the "delete" transition when Trash is enabled: include WriteLifeCycle
      </documentation>
      <include>RemoveChildren</include>
      <include>WriteLifeCycle</include>
    </permission>

    <permission name="ReadRemove">
      <include>Read</include>
      <include>Remove</include>
    </permission>

    <permission name="Write">
      <include>AddChildren</include>
      <include>WriteProperties</include>
      <include>Remove</include>
      <include>ManageWorkflows</include>
      <include>WriteLifeCycle</include>
      <include>WriteVersion</include>
    </permission>

    <permission name="ReadWrite">
      <include>Read</include>
      <include>Write</include>
    </permission>

    <permission name="WriteSecurity"/>

    <permission name="Everything">
      <documentation>
        Special permission given to administrators: god-level access
      </documentation>
    </permission>

    <permission name="RestrictedRead">
      <documentation>
        Deprecated - was used only for a single customer project before pluggable permission definitions
      </documentation>
    </permission>

    <permission name="MakeRecord"/>
    <permission name="SetRetention"/>
    <permission name="ManageLegalHold"/>

    <permission name="WriteColdStorage"/>

  </extension>

(0) nuxeo-core-2021.7.15.jar/OSGI-INF/permissions-contrib.xml Override

<extension point="permissions" target="org.nuxeo.ecm.core.security.SecurityService">

    <permission name="ReadCanCollect">
      <include>Read</include>
      <include>WriteProperties</include>
    </permission>

  </extension>

(1) nuxeo-platform-collections-core-2021.7.15.jar/OSGI-INF/collection-security-contrib.xml Override

<extension point="permissions" target="org.nuxeo.ecm.core.security.SecurityService">

    <permission name="Comment">
      <include>WriteLifeCycle</include>
    </permission>

    <permission name="Moderate"/>

  </extension>

(2) nuxeo-platform-comment-2021.7.15.jar/OSGI-INF/comment-defaultPermissions-contrib.xml Override

nuxeo-platform-publisher-2021.7.15.jar /OSGI-INF/publisher-permissions-contrib.xml
```
<extension point="permissions" target="org.nuxeo.ecm.core.security.SecurityService">

    <permission name="CanAskForPublishing"/>

  </extension>
```
(3) nuxeo-platform-publisher-2021.7.15.jar/OSGI-INF/publisher-permissions-contrib.xml Override

<extension point="permissions" target="org.nuxeo.ecm.core.security.SecurityService">

    <permission name="DataVisualization">
      <include>Read</include>
    </permission>

  </extension>

(4) nuxeo-routing-core-2021.7.15.jar/OSGI-INF/document-routing-security-contrib.xml Override