Getting Permission Denied using sendXMLRequest

Question

Hi,
I'm trying to do some admininistration of MapViewer using the Java API, but get the following response:
****** response = <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <oms_error> Permission denied for this operation!</oms_error>
My reading of Chapter 6 " MapViewer Administrative Requests" implies that the following should work:
MapViewer mv = new MapViewer(mvURLStr);
StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
buf.append("<?xml version=\"1.0\" standalone=\"yes\"?> ");
buf.append(" <non_map_request> ");
buf.append(" <clear_cache data_source=\"mvdemo\"/> ");
buf.append(" </non_map_request> ");
mv.sendXMLRequest(buf.toString());
System.out.println("****** response = " +mv.getXMLResponse());
How to get this working?
Thanks,
--BobC                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Answer 1

All admin requests are disabled since MapViewer 10.1.2 for security reasons.
If you need to clear the cache, you either need to do it manually, or disable the caching of a theme entirely.
Or, there is an undocumented attribute that you can set in mapViewerConfig.xml, which completely disables the security checking for all admin requests:
<mv_security enforce_sec_role="false" />
Obviously you need to be very careful as any user can now send admin requests, such as deleting existing data soruces.