Search in WebScript with guest authentication

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andrepra

Hi,
I wrote a very simple web script in alfresco 3.0. The controller simply get a parameter from the request and set the space variable

var imageSpace = search.findNode("workspace://SpacesStore/" + args["uuid"]);
model.space = imageSpace;
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and the ftl template show the images contained in the space.
Setting the authentication as user everything works fine. Setting the authentication as none I get this exception

net.sf.acegisecurity.AuthenticationCredentialsNotFoundException - A valid SecureContext was not provided in the RequestContext

net.sf.acegisecurity.intercept.AbstractSecurityInterceptor.credentialsNotFound(AbstractSecurityInterceptor.java:477)
….

org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException - Failed to execute search: ID:workspace\://SpacesStore/29b2aa8f\-bd8a\-4bf6\-93eb\-2d75dd3c12dd
    
org.alfresco.repo.jscript.Search.query(Search.java:451)
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The space is the guest home so the permissions are ok. Seems that there's some problem executing the search without the secure context. Looking the source of the RepositoryContainer class I saw that call to clearCurrentSecurityContext()

if (required == RequiredAuthentication.none)
        {
            // MT-context will pre-authenticate (see MTWebScriptAuthenticationFilter)
            if (! AuthenticationUtil.isMtEnabled())
            {
                // TODO revisit - cleared here, in-lieu of WebClient clear
                AuthenticationUtil.clearCurrentSecurityContext();
            }
            transactionedExecuteAs(script, scriptReq, scriptRes);
        }
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My question is: is this an error or I have to use another API to perform the search.
Thanks
Andrea

mikeh

Setting authentication to "none" is very different to "guest", which is what I believe you need.

Mike