Security: Use Cases

This page will summarize first thoughts on annotation-based security/authentication support in BaseX.

Annotation specification (first thoughts):

(: The basic security annotation enforcing a authorization on method invocation.:) (: The literal defines a principal which must be assigned to the current logged in user :) (: If the authorization was not successfull the default authorization fallback is called. @see %sec:authorization-fallback() :) %sec:requires-principal(string)

(: The basic security annotation enforcing a authorization on method invocation.:) (: The first literal defines a principal which must be assigned to the current logged in user :) (: The second defines the fallback function which should be called if the authorization was not successful @see %sec:authorization-fallback(string) :) %sec:requires-principal(string,string)

(: The default authorization fallback function. The function must not have any arguments :) (: relevant information like the current username might be available through additional xquery function in the security module :) %sec:authorization-fallback()

(: An authorization fallback function addressable for %sec:requires-principal(string,string) by given id. The function must not have any arguments :) (: relevant information like the current username might be available through additional xquery function in the security module :) %sec:authorization-fallback(string)

(: The default authentication fallback function. The function must not have any arguments :) (: relevant information like the current username might be available through additional xquery function in the security module :) %sec:authentication-fallback()

(: Provides default credentials if the authentication was not successful :) %sec:credentials()