What’s new for OMERO 5.4 for developers

Python BlitzGateway

• New in 5.4.0 are Restricted Administrators. These are Admins that have a subset of Full Admin privileges.

• Previously if conn.isAdmin() is true for the current user, they could perform all actions allowed for Full Admins.

• Now, this will return True for Full Admins and Restricted Admins, but the user may not be allowed to perform some actions.

• Use conn.isFullAdmin() to check if user is a Full Administrator.

• To get the current user’s privileges, use conn.getCurrentAdminPrivileges()

• This will return list e.g. ["Chgrp", "Chown", "ModifyGroup", "ModifyGroupMembership", Sudo", "DeleteFile"]

• Can also check this for another user with conn.getAdminPrivileges(user_id)

• For a full list of available privileges, use:

  for p in conn.getEnumerationEntries('AdminPrivilege'):
      print p.getValue()
  

• See Administrators with restricted privileges to know which privileges are required for which actions.

Java Gateway

• Added various methods for dealing with Administrators with restricted privileges to the AdminFacility.

Integration tests

• Provide a way for applications and plugins in separate repositories to more simply run integration tests. See omero-test-infra for more information.

Deprecations

OMERO Model

• ome.model.jobs.ImportJob to be removed in OMERO 6.0.
• ome.model.roi.Path to be removed in OMERO 6.0.

Python BlitzGateway

• channel.isReverseIntensity(). Renamed to channel.isInverted().
• image.setReverseIntensity(). Renamed to image.setChannelInverted().
• image.setActiveChannels(reverseMaps) parameter renamed to invertMaps.
• In conn.createOriginalFileFromFileObj() and conn.createOriginalFileFromLocalFile() the ns parameter is deprecated.