MidPoint Object Attributes
Last modified 15 Feb 2024 14:09 +01:00

Customer-Level Organizations

Attribute Value Example

name

E-mail address of the customer (i.e. email of person that performs the registration).

jack@sparrow.com

displayName

User-specified one, if present. The default is "<user>'s home".

Jack Sparrow’s home

orgType

customer

thingSpeakApiKey (extension)

ThingSpeak API key

R9TUHWKR8OOQEHWU

registrationKey (extension)

Registration key to be entered into devices when configuring them. It has 16 characters plus a single hyphen in the middle.

HQ481047-1JWORF43

registrationLookupKey (extension)

First half of the registration key. Used to look up a device and validate its authenticity. (Second part of the key is used to encrypt the response.)

HQ481047

assignment

The "Customers" root node reference. So all these organizations are created one level below the root.

Customer’s Internal Organizations

The customer is free to create arbitrary organizational structure within his organization. Names are generated automatically in order to avoid naming collisions.

Attribute Value Example

name

E-mail address of the customer plus a random number

jack@sparrow.com 832842948324

displayName

A name chosen by the customer

Black Pearl

Users

Attribute Value Example

name

User’s e-mail address.

jack@sparrow.com

givenName

As specified during registration.

Jack

familyName

As specified during registration.

Sparrow

fullName

Derived form given name and family name.

Jack Sparrow

emailAddress

User’s e-mail address.

jack@sparrow.com

assignment

Customer-level organization. Assigned as a member as well as a manager of it.

Jack’s World

Resources

Because of ThingSpeak API structure we need to have a "channels" resource for each ThingSpeak account. These resources have majority of items the same:

  • connectorRef,

  • connectorConfiguration (except for password),

  • schemaHandling,

  • capabilities,

  • synchronization.

They are stored in ThingSpeak (master resource) object. We would need to use Resource template feature (MID-1653). Until it is ready, however, we do a small workaround by creating resource object by simply copying the "master". Properties specific for each resource copy are:

Attribute Value Example

name

Resource name: ThingSpeak channels of <email>

ThingSpeak channels of jack@sparrow.com

connectorConfiguration/configurationProperties/password

Customer’s ThingSpeak account API key

R9TUHWKR8OOQEHWU

We had to provide a connector implementation for ThingSpeak, described on a separate page.

Devices (services)

Each thermometer device is modeled as midPoint service with the following properties:

Property Description Source Example

name

Serial number

Provided by device on self-registration

74743827342

displayName

Name as shown in midPoint

Edited by the customer via midPoint GUI

Captain’s cabin

identifier

ThingSpeak channel ID

Provided by ThingSpeak on channel creation

144872

extension/readKey

ThingSpeak channel read API key

Provided by ThingSpeak on channel creation (or when key changes)

F8R5M7GTJ1PW8Q44

extension/writeKey

ThingSpeak channel write API key

Provided by ThingSpeak on channel creation (or when key changes)

4OXD0MK3OT8O974Y

Roles

There are only two story-specific roles, serving for authorization control.

Role Description

Customer admin role

Customer administrative user. Can see all users, orgs and services (devices) within customer’s organization. Can modify objects to some extent.

Customer user role

Can see selected items in services (devices) in organization(s) whose he is a member of. This allows customer administrator to perform quite flexible access control: by placing a user into org1, …​, orgN he allows the user to see all devices in these organizations.

Self-Registration Processes

Here we describe processes that run during self-registration of users (customers) and devices.

Customer Self-Registration

TODO

Device Self-Registration

A device contacts midPoint using the following URL

http://<midpoint host and port>/midpoint/ws/iot/devices/<serialNumber>?key=<first-half-of-registration-key>

The following algorithm is executed (see IoTRestService class):

  1. Find an organization O with a given first half of registration key (stored in extension/registrationLookupKey). If not found (or if more than one is found), signal an exception.

  2. Find a resource R that is a membef of that organization. Again, if zero or more than one is found, signal an exception.

  3. Find a service with a name equals to given serialNumber.

    1. If it doesn’t exist, create it, with the properties of

      1. name = serialNumber

      2. description = "Thermometer <serialNumber>"

      3. assignment = organization O

      4. assignment = resource R (with kind = generic, intent = channel)
        (this causes provisioning of ThingSpeak channel for this device; eventually filling-in API keys for this device)

  4. Send the ThingSpeak channel identifier (identifier property) and write API key (extension/writeKey property), formatted as properties file in a text/plain response. Like this:

channel=145736
writeKey=N35UIE4V3O1WMKH6
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