Authorizers: (v4.3)

Authorizers are meant to check authorizations when accessing an URL (in the “security filter”):

• either on the authenticated user profile: has the user the appropriate role?
• or on the web context: can you call this resource with that HTTP method?

Notice that this concept of Authorizer has a broader meaning than generally in the security field.

Generally, authorizers are defined in the security configuration of the application.

Various authorizers are available:

• Roles/permissions - Anonymous/remember-me/(fully) authenticated - Profile type, attribute
• CSRF - IP address, HTTP method

▸ Default authorizer names

Most pac4j implementations use the pac4j logics and authorizers and thus the DefaultAuthorizationChecker component. In that case, the following authorizers are automatically available via the following short keywords:

• csrfCheck (for the CsrfAuthorizer authorizer) to check that the CSRF token has been sent as the pac4jCsrfToken header or parameter in a POST request
• isAnonymous (for the IsAnonymousAuthorizer authorizer) to ensure the user is not authenticated
• isAuthenticated (for the IsAuthenticatedAuthorizer authorizer) to ensure the user is authenticated (not necessary by default unless you use the AnonymousClient)
• isFullyAuthenticated (for the IsFullyAuthenticatedAuthorizer authorizer) to check if the user is authenticated but not remembered
• isRemembered (for the IsRememberedAuthorizer authorizer) for a remembered user
• none for no authorizers at all.

These short names are defined as constants in DefaultAuthorizers.

▸ The composition of authorizers

You can create a composition (conjunction or disjunction) of authorizers. For example:

final Authorizer<CommonProfile> authorizer = or(
    and(
        requireAnyRole("profile_role1"),
        requireAnyPermission("profile_permission1")
    ),
    and(
        requireAnyRole("profile_role2"),
        requireAnyPermission("profile_permission2")
    )
);