spring-data-jpaspring-data-restspring-security-acl

Using Spring Security ACL with Spring Data REST


I am trying to authorize apis exposed by Spring Data REST. So far I am able to do role-based authorization i.e:

@RepositoryRestResource(path = "book")
public interface BookRepository extends JpaRepository<Book, Long> {

    @PreAuthorize("hasRole('ROLE_ADMIN')")
    <S extends Book> Book save(Book book);
}

Also in the same project i have a service layer with ACL mechanism, which is working.

I am unable to use PostFilter expression with Spring Data REST i.e:

@PostFilter("hasPermission(filterObject, 'read') or hasPermission(filterObject, admin)")
List<Book> findAll();

It would be of great help, if anyone using ACL with Spring Data REST.

Note: I am aware of below open issues:

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-rest/issues/619 (formerly DATAREST-236)

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/issues/2629 (formerly SEC-2409)


Solution

  • using JpaRepository was shadowing List<Book> findAll() method. Then I used CrudRepository, and PostFilter got applied.

    For more details, a sample project is available on GitHub: https://github.com/charybr/spring-data-rest-acl

    ACL-based authorization is working for below entity exposed by Spring Data REST.

    import org.springframework.data.repository.CrudRepository;
    import org.springframework.data.rest.core.annotation.RepositoryRestResource;
    import org.springframework.security.access.method.P;
    import org.springframework.security.access.prepost.PostFilter;
    import org.springframework.security.access.prepost.PreAuthorize;
    
    @RepositoryRestResource(path = "book")
    public interface BookRepository extends CrudRepository<Book, Long> {
    
        @PreAuthorize("hasRole('ROLE_ADMIN') or hasPermission(#book, 'write')")
        <S extends Book> Book save(@P("book") Book book);
    
        @Override
        @PostFilter("hasPermission(filterObject, 'read') or hasPermission(filterObject, admin)")
        Iterable<Book> findAll();
    }