Class WebContainerAuthorizer

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    WebAuthorizer, Authorizer

    public class WebContainerAuthorizer
    extends java.lang.Object
    implements WebAuthorizer
    Authorizes users by delegating role membership checks to the servlet container. In addition to implementing methods for the Authorizer interface, this class also provides a convenience method isContainerAuthorized() that queries the web application descriptor to determine if the container manages authorization.
    Since:
    2.3
    • Nested Class Summary

      Nested Classes 
      Modifier and Type Class Description
      class  WebContainerAuthorizer.LocalEntityResolver
      XML entity resolver that redirects resolution requests by JDOM, JAXP and other XML parsers to locally-cached copies of the resources.
    • Field Summary

      Fields 
      Modifier and Type Field Description
      protected boolean m_containerAuthorized
      Lazily-initialized boolean flag indicating whether the web container protects JSPWiki resources.
      protected Role[] m_containerRoles
      A lazily-initialized array of Roles that the container knows about.
      protected Engine m_engine  
    • Constructor Summary

      Constructors 
      Constructor Description
      WebContainerAuthorizer()
      Constructs a new instance of the WebContainerAuthorizer class.
    • Method Summary

      All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods 
      Modifier and Type Method Description
      java.security.Principal findRole​(java.lang.String role)
      Looks up and returns a Role Principal matching a given String.
      java.security.Principal[] getRoles()
      Returns an array of role Principals this Authorizer knows about.
      protected Role[] getRoles​(org.jdom2.Document webxml)
      Protected method that extracts the roles from JSPWiki's web application deployment descriptor.
      protected org.jdom2.Document getWebXml()
      Returns an Document representing JSPWiki's web application deployment descriptor.
      void initialize​(Engine engine, java.util.Properties props)
      Initializes the authorizer for.
      boolean isConstrained​(java.lang.String url, Role role)
      Protected method that identifies whether a particular webapp URL is constrained to a particular Role.
      boolean isContainerAuthorized()
      Returns true if the web container is configured to protect certain JSPWiki resources by requiring authentication.
      boolean isUserInRole​(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, java.security.Principal role)
      Determines whether a user associated with an HTTP request possesses a particular role.
      boolean isUserInRole​(Session session, java.security.Principal role)
      Determines whether the Subject associated with a Session is in a particular role.
      • Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

        clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
    • Field Detail

      • m_containerRoles

        protected Role[] m_containerRoles
        A lazily-initialized array of Roles that the container knows about. These are parsed from JSPWiki's web.xml web application deployment descriptor. If this file cannot be read for any reason, the role list will be empty. This is a hack designed to get around the fact that we have no direct way of querying the web container about which roles it manages.
      • m_containerAuthorized

        protected boolean m_containerAuthorized
        Lazily-initialized boolean flag indicating whether the web container protects JSPWiki resources.
    • Constructor Detail

      • WebContainerAuthorizer

        public WebContainerAuthorizer()
        Constructs a new instance of the WebContainerAuthorizer class.
    • Method Detail

      • initialize

        public void initialize​(Engine engine,
                               java.util.Properties props)
        Initializes the authorizer for.
        Specified by:
        initialize in interface Authorizer
        Parameters:
        engine - the current wiki engine
        props - the wiki engine initialization properties
      • isUserInRole

        public boolean isUserInRole​(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request,
                                    java.security.Principal role)
        Determines whether a user associated with an HTTP request possesses a particular role. This method simply delegates to HttpServletRequest.isUserInRole(String) by converting the Principal's name to a String.
        Specified by:
        isUserInRole in interface WebAuthorizer
        Parameters:
        request - the HTTP request
        role - the role to check
        Returns:
        true if the user is considered to be in the role, false otherwise
      • findRole

        public java.security.Principal findRole​(java.lang.String role)
        Looks up and returns a Role Principal matching a given String. If the Role does not match one of the container Roles identified during initialization, this method returns null.
        Specified by:
        findRole in interface Authorizer
        Parameters:
        role - the name of the Role to retrieve
        Returns:
        a Role Principal, or null
        See Also:
        Authorizer.initialize(Engine, Properties)
      • isConstrained

        public boolean isConstrained​(java.lang.String url,
                                     Role role)

        Protected method that identifies whether a particular webapp URL is constrained to a particular Role. The resource is considered constrained if:

        • the web application deployment descriptor contains a security-constraint with a child web-resource-collection/url-pattern element matching the URL, and:
        • this constraint also contains an auth-constraint/role-name element equal to the supplied Role's getName() method. If the supplied Role is Role.ALL, it matches all roles
        Parameters:
        url - the web resource
        role - the role
        Returns:
        true if the resource is constrained to the role, false otherwise
      • isContainerAuthorized

        public boolean isContainerAuthorized()
        Returns true if the web container is configured to protect certain JSPWiki resources by requiring authentication. Specifically, this method parses JSPWiki's web application descriptor (web.xml) and identifies whether the string representation of Role.AUTHENTICATED is required to access /Delete.jsp and LoginRedirect.jsp. If the administrator has uncommented the large <security-constraint> section of web.xml, this will be true. This is admittedly an indirect way to go about it, but it should be an accurate test for default installations, and also in 99% of customized installations.
        Returns:
        true if the container protects resources, false otherwise
      • getRoles

        public java.security.Principal[] getRoles()
        Returns an array of role Principals this Authorizer knows about. This method will return an array of Role objects corresponding to the logical roles enumerated in the web.xml. This method actually returns a defensive copy of an internally stored array.
        Specified by:
        getRoles in interface Authorizer
        Returns:
        an array of Principals representing the roles
      • getRoles

        protected Role[] getRoles​(org.jdom2.Document webxml)
        Protected method that extracts the roles from JSPWiki's web application deployment descriptor. Each Role is constructed by using the String representation of the Role, for example new Role("Administrator").
        Parameters:
        webxml - the web application deployment descriptor
        Returns:
        an array of Role objects
      • getWebXml

        protected org.jdom2.Document getWebXml()
                                        throws org.jdom2.JDOMException,
                                               java.io.IOException
        Returns an Document representing JSPWiki's web application deployment descriptor. The document is obtained by calling the servlet context's getResource() method and requesting /WEB-INF/web.xml. For non-servlet applications, this method calls this class' ClassLoader.getResource(java.lang.String) and requesting WEB-INF/web.xml.
        Returns:
        the descriptor
        Throws:
        java.io.IOException - if the deployment descriptor cannot be found or opened
        org.jdom2.JDOMException - if the deployment descriptor cannot be parsed correctly