Re: [Handle-info] accessing non-public values in client API

[Sean Reilly <sreilly@cnri.reston.va.us>]

On Oct 16, 2008, at 12:30 AM, Scott Yeadon wrote:
> Can anyone shed some light on what's happening here, it's probably  
> something really obvious but I haven't been able to spot it looking  
> through the logs and server code? Is anyone familiar enough with the  
> code to state what the code is doing to satisfy itself a hidden  
> value can be returned? (I was going to add some debugging to the  
> HandleServer class but there are whole set of jars which don't  
> appear to be part of the source distribution that throw errors when  
> I run an ant build.)

It sounds like the "read value" permission is not enabled in the  
applicable HS_ADMIN records.  If you don't have that permission in the  
handle then you won't be able to read any non-publicly-readable  
values.  This applies even if there are no non-publicly-readable values.

> As a secondary question (which could be related to the above  
> problem), can I create a HS_ADMIN value which is self-referential  
> i.e. the handle which the HS_ADMIN value is part of represents an  
> admin-type user who has certain privileges on their own handle? See http://hdl.handle.net/10378.1/2 
>  as an example.

Yes, absolutely.  That is how most of our "user handles" at CNRI work.

FYI: I get a "Cannot connect to server" error when trying to resolve  
your example handle.

Thanks,
Sean

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