[CAUSEWAY-664] Provide an abstract class for running "sudo" scheduler jobs

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: objectstore-jdo-1.3.0, core-1.3.0
• Fix Version/s: objectstore-jdo-1.4.0, core-1.4.0
• Component/s: Core, Persistence JDO
• Assignee: Daniel Keir Haywood
• Reporter: Daniel Keir Haywood
• Created: 28/Jan/14 07:16
• Updated: 06/Feb/14 12:47
• Resolved: 06/Feb/14 12:45

Description

To be used as the basis for Quartz scheduler jobs, say... but do not bring in a dependency on Quartz.

The main work here is in extending the security APIs to enable "sudo". This will enable persisted BackgroundTaskJdo entities (from ISIS-661) to be run as the user that created them.