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== Creating Resources
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Create a resource is pretty straight forward and generic. The main thing you should care about is the granularity of the resources you create. In other words, resources can
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be created to represent a set of one or more resources and the way you define them is crucial to start managing permissions.
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To create a new resource click on *Create* button in the right upper corner of the resource listing. In {{book.project.name}}, a resource defines a small set of information that is common to different types of resources, such as:
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* *Name*
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A human-readable and unique string describing a set of one or more resources.
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* *Type*
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A string uniquely identifying the type of a set of one or more resources. Usually, the type is a URN that can be used to
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group different resource instances.
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* *URI*
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A URI that provides the location/address for the resource. For HTTP resources, the URI
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is usually the relative path used to serve these resources.
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* *Scopes*
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One more scopes to associate with the resource
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=== Typed Resources
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The type field of a resource may be used to group different resources together, so they can be protected using a common set of permissions.
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=== Resource Owners
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Resources also have an owner. By default, resources are owned by the resource server.
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However, resources can also be associated with your users, so you can create permissions based on the resource owner. For instance, only the resource owner is allowed to delete or update a given resource.
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=== Managing Resources Remotely
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Resource management is also exposed through the link:../service/protection-api.html[Protection API] to allow resource servers to remotely manage their resources.
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When using the Protection API, resource servers can be implemented to manage resources owned by their users. In this case, you can
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specify the user identifier to configure a resource as belonging to a specific user.
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[NOTE]
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{{book.project.name}} provides to resource server completly control over its resources. In the future, we should be able to
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allow users to control their own resources, approve authorization requests and manage permissions. Specially when using the UMA protocol.
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