Warning: EJB referenced an unknown security role?

Question

Hello,
I get a weird error from WL 5.1 (SP6), using the default WLPropertyRealm.
In the EJB I have the following check:
if (ctx.isCallerInRole("ConspiratorRole"))
System.out.println ("the user is in the ConspiratorRole role");
At run time, I get the following warning in the WL window:
Fri Nov 10 12:56:58 EST 2000:<I>
<EJB JAR deployment D:/weblogic/myserver/myBean.jar>
Warning: EJB "unu" referenced an unknown security role
However:
- the role IS defined (see ejb-jar.xml)
- has an associated principal (see weblogic-ejb-jar.xml)
- there is a principal defined in weblogic.properties
- this principal (and this role) is actually used in practice to access the
bean. Which works.
So why the warning?
Any hint appreciated,
Thanks.
ejb-jar.xml:
<assembly-descriptor>
<security-role>
<description>description of the ConspiratorRole</description>
<role-name>ConspiratorRole</role-name>
</security-role>
</assembly-descriptor>
weblogic-ejb-jar.xml:
<weblogic-ejb-jar>
<security-role-assignment>
<role-name>ConspiratorRole</role-name>
<principal-name>Conspirator</principal-name>
</security-role-assignment>
</weblogic-ejb-jar>

Answer 1

You should not reference the role link in you code.The role link is used to
connect the role name in you code to the
role name in your deployment descripment. Only if this link is set up as you
have done below, will the isCallerInRole return true.
- Sri
Alf wrote:
I reviewed older postings and found indications of what appears to be a bug
in WL: that isCallerInRole always return false for role names but returns
correct values if the role names are linked with a reference in
<security-role-ref>. So, according to the DTD at
http://edocs.bea.com/wle/dd/ddref.htm#1038338 I added the following in
ejb-jar.xml:
<ejb-jar>
<enterprise-beans>
<session>
<security-role-ref>
<role-name>ConspiratorRole</role-name>
<role-link>ConspiratorRoleLink</role-link>
</security-role-ref>
and added 2 lines in the bean to test the both the role and the reference
if (ctx.isCallerInRole("ConspiratorRole"))
System.out.println ("the user is in the ConspiratorRole role");
if (ctx.isCallerInRole("ConspiratorRoleLink"))
System.out.println ("the user is in the ConspiratorRoleLink
role");
The unexpected result was a NullPointerException at
weblogic.ejb.internal.BaseEJBContext.isCallerInRole(BaseEJBContext.java:665)
Can anyone shed some light? Thanks.
"Alf" <alf> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
Hello,
I get a weird error from WL 5.1 (SP6), using the default WLPropertyRealm.
In the EJB I have the following check:
if (ctx.isCallerInRole("ConspiratorRole"))
System.out.println ("the user is in the ConspiratorRole role");
At run time, I get the following warning in the WL window:
Fri Nov 10 12:56:58 EST 2000:<I>
<EJB JAR deployment D:/weblogic/myserver/myBean.jar>
Warning: EJB "unu" referenced an unknown security role
However:
- the role IS defined (see ejb-jar.xml)
- has an associated principal (see weblogic-ejb-jar.xml)
- there is a principal defined in weblogic.properties
- this principal (and this role) is actually used in practice to accessthe
bean. Which works.
So why the warning?
Any hint appreciated,
Thanks.
ejb-jar.xml:
<assembly-descriptor>
<security-role>
<description>description of the ConspiratorRole</description>
<role-name>ConspiratorRole</role-name>
</security-role>
</assembly-descriptor>
weblogic-ejb-jar.xml:
<weblogic-ejb-jar>
<security-role-assignment>
<role-name>ConspiratorRole</role-name>
<principal-name>Conspirator</principal-name>
</security-role-assignment>
</weblogic-ejb-jar>