[CASSANDRA-10852] Add requireAuthorization method to IAuthorizer

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.2
• Assignee: Mike Adamson
• Reporter: Mike Adamson

Authors

Mike Adamson

Reviewers

Sam Tunnicliffe

• Created: 12/Dec/15 15:23
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:30
• Resolved: 04/Jan/16 18:04

Description

The IAuthenticator interface has a requireAuthentication to indicate whether an implementation requires an explicit login. For consistency it would be useful for 3rd party implementers if the IAuthorizer had a similar method requireAuthorization that would indicate if the implementation required explicit authorization.

This would mean that we could remove and explicit instanceof checks for AllowAllAuthenticator and AllowAllAuthorizer in the code.