Guards

Guards are classes that control access to REST classes and methods.

Guards are associated with resource classes and methods via the following:

- {@link oajr.annotation.RestResource#guards() RestResource(guards)}
- {@link oajr.annotation.RestMethod#guards() RestMethod(guards)}
- {@link oajr.RestContextBuilder#guards(Class...)}

// Define a guard that only lets Billy make a request public BillyGuard extends RestGuard { @Override /* RestGuard */ public boolean isRequestAllowed(RestRequest req) { return req.getUserPrincipal().getName().equals("Billy"); } } // Servlet with class-level guard applied @RestResource(guards=BillyGuard.class) public MyRestServlet extends BasicRestServlet { // Delete method that only Billy is allowed to call. @RestMethod(name="DELETE") public doDelete(RestRequest req, RestResponse res) throws Exception {...} }

A common use for guards is to only allow admin access to certain Java methods...

// DELETE method @RestMethod(name=DELETE, guards={AdminGuard.class}) public void doDelete(RestRequest req, RestResponse res) throws Exception {...}

public class AdminGuard extends RestGuard { @Override /* RestGuard */ public boolean isRequestAllowed(RestRequest req) { return req.getUserPrincipal().isUserInRole("ADMIN"); } }

A guard failure results in an HTTP 401 Unauthorized response. However, this can be configured by overriding the {@link oajr.RestGuard#guard(RestRequest,RestResponse)} and processing the response yourself.

public class AdminGuard extends RestGuard { @Override /* RestGuard */ public boolean guard(RestRequest req, RestResponse res) throws RestException { if (! isOkay(req)) throw new RestException(SC_FORBIDDEN, "Access denied!!!"); return true; } }

When guards are associated at the class-level, it's equivalent to associating guards on all Java methods on the servlet. If multiple guards are present, ALL guards must pass.

##### See Also:

- {@link oajr.RestContext#REST_guards}