Contribution

Contributor

Kevin Bui (lead developer)
Michelle Morris
University of Pittsburgh

Justin Prosser (security expert)
University of Washington

Mike Mendis
Jeff Klann
Reeta Metta
Mass General Brigham

Ability to specify user parameter defaults

Michael Horvath
Wake Forest University

This change is meant to allowing user params to take precedence over hive params. Currently, it's the other way around.

Particularly, if you have the situation where you have a large number of users who use an authentication method other than the default basic, but your service account (AGG_SERVICE_ACCOUNT) is using basic then you need to specify a user param for each of your users.

With this change, you can set default authentication params in pm_hive_params for all users, and then set your service account specifically to be authentication_method = 'BASIC'. May seem like a small change, but it would be very welcome not to need to assign params for each new user at our institution.

In the process of making this change, I re-organized basic authentication into its own package and removed some code duplication.

LDAP UPN Support

Michael Horvath
Wake Forest University

Active Directory enables other methods of binding which are more flexible besides just using the distinguished name. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-adts/6a5891b8-928e-4b75-a4a5-0e3b77eaca52. This change is to enable binding the the User Principle Name form, which is very convenient when the distinguished names for users is not easily available (OU by department, etc.).

Kevin Bui
Michelle Morris
University of Pittsburgh

The metadata GetChildren API call, which returns information on the children of an ontology node, can now be configured to return multiple levels of children (e.g., children, children's children, etc.). This is done by specifying the numLevel parameters. 

By default, the function assumes numLevel = 1 and will return the direct descendants of the concept, which is one level of children.  When the numLevel = -1 the function will return ALL descendants of the concept, otherwise the function will return up to and including the number of levels specified by numLevel (eg. numlevel=2 returns two levels of descendants, numLevel=4 returns four levels of descendants).

Ambreen Zaver
University of Colorado