[NIFI-3653] Create PolicyBasedAuthorizer interface to allow authorization chain

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: Core Framework
• Assignee: Matt Gilman
• Reporter: Michael W Moser
• Created: 27/Mar/17 21:35
• Updated: 09/Jun/17 20:14
• Resolved: 09/Jun/17 18:01

Description

Rather than using AbstractPolicyBasedAuthorizer to trigger policy management, refactor to use a new interface. New implementations of this interface can then create an authorization chain with existing AbstractPolicyBasedAuthorizer sub-classes.

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While investigating alternate implementations of the Authorizer interface, I see the AbstractPolicyBasedAuthorizer is meant to be extended. It's authorize() method is final, however, and does not have an abstract doAuthorize() method that sub-classes can extend.

In particular, the existing AbstractPolicyBasedAuthorizer authorize() method does not take into account the AuthorizationRequest "resourceContext" in its authorization decision. This is especially important when authorizing access to events in Provenance, which places attributes in resouceContext of its AuthorizationRequest when obtaining an authorization decision. I would like to use attributes to authorize access to Provenance download & view content feature.

If I had my own sub-class of AbstractPolicyBasedAuthorizer, with the availability of a doAuthorize() method, then I could maintain my own user policies for allowing access to flowfile content via Provenance.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: NIFI-4032 Create Managed Ranger Authorizer
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1897