[HIVE-18777] Add Authorization interface to support information_schema integration with external authorization

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Thejas Nair
• Reporter: Thejas Nair
• Created: 22/Feb/18 22:18
• Updated: 24/Jun/20 00:27
• Resolved: 01/Mar/18 01:08

Description

HIVE-1010 added support for information_schema. However, the authorization information is not integrated when another project such as Ranger is used to do the authorization.
We need to add API which Ranger/Sentry can implement, so that it is possible to retrieve authorization policy information from them.
The existing API only supports checking if user has a permission on an object and can't be used to retrieve policy details.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #312
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #312