[ZOOKEEPER-3160] Custom User SSLContext

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.5.4
• Fix Version/s: 3.6.0
• Component/s: java client
• Labels: features pull-request-available ready-to-commit
• Assignee: Alex Rankin
• Reporter: Alex Rankin
• Created: 02/Oct/18 15:46
• Updated: 25/Jan/19 19:23
• Resolved: 25/Jan/19 13:32

Description

The Zookeeper libraries currently allow you to set up your SSL Context via system properties such as "zookeeper.ssl.keyStore.location" in the X509Util. This covers most simple use cases, where users have software keystores on their harddrive.

There are, however, a few additional scenarios that this doesn't cover. Two possible ones would be:

1. The user has a hardware keystore, loaded in using PKCS11 or something similar.
2. The user has no access to the software keystore, but can retrieve an already-constructed SSLContext from their container.

For this, I would propose that the X509Util be extended to allow a user to set a property such as "zookeeper.ssl.client.context" to provide a class which supplies a custom SSL context. This gives a lot more flexibility to the ZK client, and allows the user to construct the SSLContext in whatever way they please (which also future proofs the implementation somewhat).

I've already completed this feature, and will put in a PR soon for it.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #654
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #728
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #728