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‎Grid Services: linked orphaned authorization service page

Acryline at 07:23, 6 March 2015

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 | Authentication || auth, tokens           || Handles login authentication.  Core implementations are password and webkey.
 |-
-| Authorization  || none                   || Checks if the user is authorized to enter a given region
+| [[AuthorizationService|Authorization]]  || none                   || Checks if the user is authorized to enter a given region
 |-
 | [[AvatarService|Avatar]]         || Avatars                || Holds avatar appearance, height and which items are attached.

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	==Introduction==		==Introduction==

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 | [[GridUserService|GridUser]] || GridUser               || Records status information for a user on a grid, including home position, last position (set on logout) and whether they are online or not.  On a non-Hypergrid setup, each grid user will have a user account.  The online information is likely to be less accurate than the presence service, which is updated more frequently.  Information is added (when a user first becomes a root agent on any simulator in the grid) but never removed, so the record of the last login to the grid remains when they have logged out.
 |-
-| [[GroupsService|Groups]] || os_groups_* (core groups) || Groups service.  OpenSimulator both has a [[V2 Groups|bundled groups service]] which is not yet enabled by default and an external [[Groups|XmlRpc/Flotsam groups service]].
+| [[GroupsService|Groups]] || os_groups_* (core groups) || Groups service.  OpenSimulator both has a [[V2 Groups|core groups service]] which is not yet enabled by default and an external [[Groups|XmlRpc/Flotsam groups service]].
 |-
 | HG*            || n/a                    || Hypergrid services.  These usually override 'normal' services (e.g. asset, inventory) with some Hypergrid specific functionality

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 |-
 | [[GridUserService|GridUser]] || GridUser               || Records status information for a user on a grid, including home position, last position (set on logout) and whether they are online or not.  On a non-Hypergrid setup, each grid user will have a user account.  The online information is likely to be less accurate than the presence service, which is updated more frequently.  Information is added (when a user first becomes a root agent on any simulator in the grid) but never removed, so the record of the last login to the grid remains when they have logged out.
 |-
 | HG*            || n/a                    || Hypergrid services.  These usually override 'normal' services (e.g. asset, inventory) with some Hypergrid specific functionality

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 | [[GridService|Grid]] || regions                || Holds region information for a grid.  Simulators register here on startup.
 |-
-| [[GridUserService]] || GridUser               || Records status information for a user on a grid, including home position, last position (set on logout) and whether they are online or not.  On a non-Hypergrid setup, each grid user will have a user account.  The online information is likely to be less accurate than the presence service, which is updated more frequently.  Information is added (when a user first becomes a root agent on any simulator in the grid) but never removed, so the record of the last login to the grid remains when they have logged out.
+| [[GridUserService|GridUser]] || GridUser               || Records status information for a user on a grid, including home position, last position (set on logout) and whether they are online or not.  On a non-Hypergrid setup, each grid user will have a user account.  The online information is likely to be less accurate than the presence service, which is updated more frequently.  Information is added (when a user first becomes a root agent on any simulator in the grid) but never removed, so the record of the last login to the grid remains when they have logged out.
 |-
 | HG*            || n/a                    || Hypergrid services.  These usually override 'normal' services (e.g. asset, inventory) with some Hypergrid specific functionality

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 | Friends        || Friends                || User friends data storage
 |-
-| Grid           || regions                || Holds region information for a grid.  Simulators register here on startup.
+| [[GridService|Grid]] || regions                || Holds region information for a grid.  Simulators register here on startup.
 |-
 | GridUser       || GridUser               || Records status information for a user on a grid, including home position, last position (set on logout) and whether they are online or not.  On a non-Hypergrid setup, each grid user will have a user account.  The online information is likely to be less accurate than the presence service, which is updated more frequently.  Information is added (when a user first becomes a root agent on any simulator in the grid) but never removed, so the record of the last login to the grid remains when they have logged out.

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 ==Grid Services==
-Here is a table of each grid service in OpenSimulator and its function.  All service interfaces are in the package OpenSim.Services.Interfaces.
+Here is a table of each grid service in OpenSimulator and its function.  All service interfaces are in the package OpenSim.Services.Interfaces.  See [[Database:Documentation]] for more information on the database tables that back these services.
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 | MapImage       || stored on filesystem   || Stores and provides main map image tiles.
 |-
-| [[PresenceService|Presence]]             || Presence               || Records user sessions and the region location of a particular session.  Entries normally exist only for users that are online, though if a client has crashed the presence may remain until the simulator they occupied times out the connection.  Used for instant message routing, amongst other things.
+| [[PresenceService|Presence]]             || Presence               || Records user sessions and the region location of a particular session.  Entries normally exist only for users that are online, though if a client has crashed the presence may remain until the simulator they occupied times out the connection.  However, this is more accurate than the online information recorded in GridUser.  Used for instant message routing, amongst other things.
 |-
 | [[UserAccountService|UserAccount]]       || UserAccounts           || User account storage (avatar name, service URLs, user level, flags, etc.)