Override Access authority from Commands

checkResourcePermission The user does not have the authority to run this command. CMN0410E: The system failed to retrieve the message with  key "_ERR_USER_AUTHORITY" from "com.ibm.commerce.ras.properties.ecServerMessages"
I am sure all of us working in commerce have seen the above error  a million times and some times it is because we didn't correctly define the access privileges when creating a new command and running ACPLoad but some times it is important to override the out of the box access policies.

I would not recommend returning plain null but also find below some more restricted overrides of getResources.


public AccessVector getResources() {

  return null;

}

public AccessVector getResources()

{          final String METHOD_NAME = "getResources";            

            java.util.Vector resourcesVector = new java.util.Vector();

            Long parentOrgId= null;

            UserAccessBean userAccessBean = getCommandContext().getUser();

            Long[] userAncestors = userAccessBean.getAncestors();

            if(userAncestors != null)   {      parentOrgId = userAncestors[0];   }   
            else   {   return null;     }            

            OrganizationAccessBean orgAccessBean = new OrganizationAccessBean();

            orgAccessBean.setInitKey_MemberId(parentOrgId.toString());

            orgAccessBean.refreshCopyHelper();

            resourcesVector.addElement(orgAccessBean.getEJBRef());

            return new AccessVector(resourcesVector);

   }  

public AccessVector getResources()

{     

 final String METHOD_NAME = "getResources";
        resources = new AccessVector();
        try {
            if (resources.isEmpty()) {
                orderId = getRequestProperties().getString(ORDER_ID,
                        null);
                OrderAccessBean orderAccessBean= new OrderAccessBean();
                oab.setInitKey_orderId(orderId);  
                oab.refreshCopyHelper();
                resources.addElement(orderAccessBean);
            }

    return resources;

}