dropwizard-pac4j

A Dropwizard bundle for securing REST endpoints using pac4j.

The new version 5.0.0 is based on Dropwizard v2.x (JDK 11) while previous versions were based on Dropwizard v1.x.

Usage

dropwizard-pac4j provides two components which must be integrated into applications:

• A configuration factory populated by values from a pac4j section within an application's config file.
• A Dropwizard bundle which:
  • connects the values defined in the pac4j configuration section to the jax-rs-pac4j and jee-pac4j libraries.
  • enables the use of the annotation provided in by the jax-rs-pac4j library.
  • enables Jetty session management by default.

Dependencies (dropwizard-pac4j + pac4j-* libraries)

You need to add a dependency on:

• the dropwizard-pac4j library (groupId: org.pac4j, version: 5.0.0)
• the appropriate pac4j submodules (groupId: org.pac4j, version: 4.3.0): pac4j-oauth for OAuth support (Facebook, Twitter...), pac4j-cas for CAS support, pac4j-ldap for LDAP authentication, etc.

All released artifacts are available in the Maven central repository.

Installing the bundle

Add the bundle within the application class' initialize method, just like any other bundle:

public class MySecureApplication extends Application<MySecureConfiguration> {
    final Pac4jBundle<MySecureConfiguration> bundle = new Pac4jBundle<MySecureConfiguration>() {
        @Override
        public Pac4jFactory getPac4jFactory(MySecureConfiguration configuration) {
            return configuration.getPac4jFactory();
        }
    };

    @Override
    public void initialize(Bootstrap<TestConfiguration> bootstrap) {
        bootstrap.addBundle(bundle);
    }

    ...

It can be useful to store the bundle in its own field in order to be able to access pac4j configuration as shown at the end of the next section.

Configuring the bundle

Update the application's configuration class to expose accessor methods for Pac4jFactory:

public class MySecureConfiguration extends Configuration {
    @NotNull
    Pac4jFactory pac4jFactory = new Pac4jFactory();

    @JsonProperty("pac4j")
    public Pac4jFactory getPac4jFactory() {
        return pac4jFactory;
    }

    @JsonProperty("pac4j")
    public void setPac4jFactory(Pac4jFactory pac4jFactory) {
        this.pac4jFactory = pac4jFactory;
    }
}

Note that it is also possible to have pac4jFactory be nullable and in this case, pac4j won't be configured but pac4j's type will be readable in the configuration. If the latter is not desired, do not use this bundle!

Add a pac4j section to a Dropwizard application's configuration file:

pac4j:
  # those protect the whole application at Jersey level
  globalFilters:
    - matchers: excludeUserSession
      authorizers: isAuthenticated
  servlet:
    security:
      - ...
    callback:
      - ...
    logout:
      - ...
  matchers:
    # this let the /user/session url be handled by the annotations
    excludeUserSession:
      class: org.pac4j.core.matching.PathMatcher
      excludePath: ^/user/session$
  callbackUrl: /user/session
  defaultClient: DirectBasicAuthClient
  clients:
    - org.pac4j.http.client.direct.DirectBasicAuthClient:
        authenticator:
          class: org.pac4j.http.credentials.authenticator.test.SimpleTestUsernamePasswordAuthenticator

• globalFilters to declare global filters: the clients, authorizers, matchers, multiProfile and skipResponse properties directly map to the parameters used by org.pac4j.jax.rs.filter.SecurityFilter.

• servlet to declare servlet-level filters:

• security: the clients, authorizers, matchers and multiProfile properties directly map to the parameters used by org.pac4j.jee.filter.SecurityFilter. The mapping property is used to optionally specify urls to which this filter will be applied to, defaulting to all urls (/*).

• callback: the defaultUrl, renewSession and multiProfile properties directly map to the parameters used by org.pac4j.jee.filter.CallbackFilter. The mapping property is used to specify urls to which this filter will be applied to. It does not usually contains a wildcard.

• logout: the defaultUrl and logoutUrlPattern properties directly map to the parameters used by org.pac4j.jee.filter.LogoutFilter. The mapping property is used to specify urls to which this filter will be applied to. It does not usually contains a wildcard.

• sessionEnabled: set to false to disable Jetty session management. If not set, the bundle will simply enable it by default.

• matchers: the key is the name of the Matcher and its instance is declared as explained below. Their name can be used in filter's matchers as well as in the Pac4JSecurity annotation.

• authorizers: the key is the name of the Authorizer and its instance is declared as explained below. Their name can be used in filter's authorizers as well as in the Pac4JSecurity annotation.

• clients: the key is the class of the Client and its instance is configured based on the properties. Its name is by default the short name of its class, but it can also be set explictly. Their name can be used in filter's clients as well as in the Pac4JSecurity annotation.

• defaultClient: the name of one of the client configured via clients. It will be used as the default pac4j Client. Pac4j exploits it in particular when no client is specified during callback, but also when no clients are specified on a security filter.

• defaultClients: the names (separated by commas) of some of the clients configured via clients. They will be used as the default value for the clients parameter of the Pac4JSecurity annotation.

To specify instances of Client, Authenticator, PasswordEncoder, CredentialsExtractor, ProfileCreator, AuthorizationGenerator, Authorizer, Matcher, CallbackUrlResolver, HttpActionAdapter and RedirectActionBuilder, it only necessary to refer to their class name using the class key as above and the other properties are set on the instantiated object.

URLs Relativity

Note that all urls used within Jersey filters are relative to the dropwizard applicationContext suffixed by the dropwizard roothPath while the urls used within Servlet filters are only relative to the dropwizard applicationContext.

For Jersey, this also includes callbackUrls, enforced by JaxRsCallbackUrlResolver, which is the defaultCallbackUrlResolver in the config if not overridden.

Advanced Configuration

For more complex setup of pac4j configuration, the Config can be retrieved from the Pac4jBundle object stored in your Application:

public class MySecureApplication extends Application<MySecureConfiguration> {

    final Pac4jBundle<MySecureConfiguration> bundle = ...;

    @Override
    public void run(MySecureConfiguration config, Environment env) throws Exception {
        Config conf = bundle.getConfig()
        
        DirectBasicAuthClient c = conf.getClients().findClient(DirectBasicAuthClient.class);
        c.setCredentialsExtractor(...);
        
        env.jersey().register(new DogsResource());
    }
}

Securing REST endpoints

From here, jax-rs-pac4j takes over with its annotations. See pac4j documentation on how to implement Clients, Authorizers, Matchers and all the other points of extension.

• pac4j's website and README
• jax-rs-pac4j's README

Usage with Dropwizard's ResourceTestRule

When using ResourceTestRule, it usually make sense to mock the profile that is injected for @Pac4jProfile annotations by using one of the alternative Pac4JValueFactoryProvider binders:

@Rule
public final ResourceTestRule resources = ResourceTestRule.builder()
      .addProvide(MyResource.class)
      .addProvider(new Pac4JValueFactoryProvider.Binder(new CockpitProfile("my-mock-user-id")))
      .build();

Release notes

See the release notes. Learn more by browsing the dropwizard-pac4j Javadoc and the pac4j Javadoc.

Need help?

You can use the mailing lists or the commercial support.

Development

The version 5.0.1-SNAPSHOT is under development.

Maven artifacts are built via Travis and available in the Sonatype snapshots repository. This repository must be added in the Maven settings.xml or pom.xml files:

<repositories>
  <repository>
    <id>sonatype-nexus-snapshots</id>
    <name>Sonatype Nexus Snapshots</name>
    <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
    <releases>
      <enabled>false</enabled>
    </releases>
    <snapshots>
      <enabled>true</enabled>
    </snapshots>
  </repository>
</repositories>