GeoFence library

This section aims to describe the Geofence library in order to help developers to manage users, groups, rules and instances in Geofence server. After configuring between Geofence server with GeoServer, for instance, it's possible create an user in Geofence and automatically it's possible to login (with this user) in GeoServer. Following is a list of methods, with all details to uderstand how invoke them.

Constructor

Parameters List :

• "geofenceRestUrl" : [String value] The URL of Geofence instance;

Invocation example

GeoFence gf = new GeoFence("http://geofenceRestUrl/");

User section

getUserById(String id)

Parameters List :

• "id" : [String value] It's the userId of user you are looking for;

Invocation example

String id = ...;
GSUser user = gf.getUserById(id);
String userName = user.getName();

getUserByUsername(String userName)

Parameters List :

• "userName" : [String value] It's the name of user you are looking for;

Invocation example

String userName = ...;
GSUser user = gf.getUserByUsername(userName);
String id = user.getId();

createUser(User user)

Parameters List :

• "user" : [User value] It's the org.gcube.data.access.bean.User object you are creating;

Invocation example

User user = new User();
user.setExtId("id_1");
user.setName("test_1");
user.setPassword("test");
...
HttpStatus status = gf.createUser(user);

updateUser(User user)

Parameters List :

• "user" : [User value] It's the org.gcube.data.access.bean.User object you are updating;

Invocation example

User user = new User();
user.setExtId("id_1");
user.setName("test_1");
user.setPassword("test_1");
user.setEmailAddress("test@email.com");
...
HttpStatus status = gf.updateUser(user);

updateUserById(String id, String password, String email, boolean admin, boolean enabled)

Parameters List :

• "id" : [String value] It's the id of user;
• "password" : [String value] It's the password of user.
• "email" : [String value] It's the email of user.
• "admin" : [String value] It's the boolean flag to define if user is administrator or not.
• "enabled" : [String value] It's the boolean flag to define if user is enabled or not.

Invocation example

String id = ...;
HttpStatus status = gf.updateUserById(id, "new_pass", "test@email.com", false, false);