WebUi

Locks

Overview

The locks functionality in Control/ECS GUI provides a mechanism to ensure exclusive access to detectors during operations. This prevents conflicts when multiple users attempt to configure or control the same detector simultaneously.

All LOCKs operations require an authenticated user session and moreover:

• Lock Operations require a role of minimum Role.DETECTOR.
• Lock Operations on ALL detectors require a minimum role of Role.GLOBAL.
• Forced Lock Operations require a role of minimum Role.GLOBAL.
• Forced Lock Operations on ALL detectors require a minimum role of Role.ADMIN.

Lock Management

Lock States

Each detector can be in one of the following lock states:

• Released: The detector is available to be locked by any user
• Taken: The detector is currently locked by a specific user

Get Lock States

Take Lock

Acquires a lock on a detector for the current user.

Parameters:

• detectorId: The individual detector identifier or ALL to lock all detectors (excluding TST)
• action: TAKE
• shouldForce (optional): Boolean flag to force taking the lock even if held by another user

Behavior:

• When detectorId is ALL and the user has a role of at least GLOBAL, locks all detectors except TST
• If a lock is already held by another user and:
  • shouldForce is false, the request will fail.
  • shouldForce is true and the user has a role of at least GLOBAL for individual detector and at least ADMIN for detector ALL, the lock will be taken regardless of current ownership

Release Lock

Releases a lock on a detector. If the detector is currently reported as Active by ECS, the release lock button will prompt the user to confirm the action is indeed correct.

Parameters:

• detectorId: The detector identifier or ALL to release all locks (excluding TST)
• action: RELEASE
• shouldForce (optional): Boolean flag to force releasing the lock even if held by another user

Behavior:

• When detectorId is ALL and the user has a role of at least GLOBAL, releases locks on all detectors except TST
• If a lock is already held by another user and:
  • shouldForce is false, the request will fail.
  • shouldForce is true and the user has a role of at least GLOBAL for individual detector and at least ADMIN for detector ALL, the lock will be released regardless of current ownership

Special Cases

TST Detector

The TST (test) detector is treated specially:

• When using ALL as the detector ID, TST is excluded from both TAKE and RELEASE operations
• TST must be taken/released explicitly by using TST as the detector ID
• Moreover, front-end pages are also:
  • excluding TST from being displayed if on Global page
  • displaying TST at the end with separator if on +Create or Locks pages

Error Handling

The lock controller handles the following error cases:

• Missing detectorId parameter → Returns InvalidInputError
• Invalid action parameter → Returns InvalidInputError
• Lock conflicts (when not forcing) → Error from LockService

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