[DISCUSSION] Enable STAC metadata editing for authenticated users

[anayeaye]

What

Enable stac api transactions for authenticated users only.

Why

We initially deferred this work because bulk data loading with pypgstac is appropriate for our ingestion pipelines and we did not want to allow anyone with the dashboard url to have permission to edit stac metadata. As we accumulate a larger catalog of data, it will also be important to have an easier way for subject matter experts and collaborators to edit collection metadata.

Notes

• Stac-fastapi PR adds the ability to configure additional requirements for specific endpoints: Convenience method to allow customizing route dependencies
• Look at csdap-orders for guidance on verifying admin users (above stac-fastapi PR was made on behalf of the csdap orders implementation).

AC

• Metadata editing feature epic/high level plan added to delta-backend backlog.
  -OR-
• Alternate solution noted in this issue.

[aboydnw]

@anayeaye is this still an open question?

[anayeaye]

@aboydnw I think this issue does belong in the backlog until we have a plan for how we are going to facilitate metadata edits. I'm surprised I created a verb issue without AC, though, I'm going to fix that!

[moradology]

This might be best implemented within https://github.com/NASA-IMPACT/veda-workflows-api as that service is built around enabling authenticated users to kick off ingests. This issue seems like a shared concern

[anayeaye]

Re-considering authenticated transactions because we are beginning to support ingests via hosted notebooks.

One additional requirement would automating the updates of collection extents and datetime summaries for the dashboard. The veda-stac-ingestor currently does this on our behalf.

Related links

• How to update extents and summaries SQL
• Discussion of pgstac query_queue which we could potentially use to schedule updating extents and the custom summaries function
• We've also discussed adding an admin endpoint to trigger collection extents and summaries [I'll add links if/when I find them]

[anayeaye]

Another related link about automating extent and summaries updates: https://github.com/NASA-IMPACT/veda-architecture/issues/304#issuecomment-1679280173

[anayeaye]

This is a discussion issue, I'm closing to make the task board easier to navigate