(@chris) Copy data from different user in library

[rudolphpienaar]

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[Quintinus98]

@rudolphpienaar can I work on this issue?
Also can you provide more detail on this issue?

[jennydaman]

@Quintinus98 I don't think this issue is ready to be worked on yet.

Under some circumstances, (either a feed has been shared with you, or your username is "chris") the user is able to see files owned by a different user. Currently the ChRIS_ui "Library" is able to browse a user's own files but not the files of different users.

However, there is a current blocker due to a backend issue: I'm not sure whether it's possible for a user to discover the usernames of other users (under /api/v1/, it is possible to do from /chris-admin/). @jbernal0019 @rudolphpienaar any insights?

[Quintinus98]

Okay I understand @jennydaman. I don't think a user should have the ability to see another user's feed and I also think it would not be a good idea.
Unless the other user lists out their feed for public use, it may be considered violation of user data.

There could be a feature allowing users to publicly list one or more of their feed and another to allow users access public feed. What do you think?

[jennydaman]

@Quintinus98 it's a good idea, and one that is implemented by https://terra.bio where there exists "public feeds" (workspaces in terra-speak) which everyone can view as read-only or clone to their own account. To support this in ChRIS we would need to first implement it as a backend feature.

Currently it works like this: are private to the user who created it, except for under the following conditions:

• feed is shared with someone else
• someone else's username is "chris" (the "chris" user is hard-coded as an edge case to be omniscient)

[Quintinus98]

Okay that's great @jennydaman

I sent you a message on Matrix, please could you look at it and guide me on it. My Username is David Obodo

[jennydaman]

Continuing this discussion in FNNDSC/ChRIS_ultron_backEnd#453