I'm currently creating a backend server using Jersey 2.5.1 in a Tomcat 7. For the security I'm using the @RolesAllowed, @PermitAll etc. annotations, and I have created my custom ContainerRequestFilter and SecurityContext.
My problem is that when my @RolesAllowed annotated resource is requested it always denies permission, even if I force my isUserInRole(role) method to return true. However, my filter method gets called. Do you have any suggestions? I'll paste some relevant code below.
My ContainerRequestFilter implementation:
public class AuthorizationFilter implements ContainerRequestFilter { @Override public void filter(ContainerRequestContext request) throws IOException { request.setSecurityContext(new Authorizer()); } } My SecurityContext implementation:
public class Authorizer implements SecurityContext { @Override public String getAuthenticationScheme() { return null; } @Override public Principal getUserPrincipal() { return null; } @Override public boolean isSecure() { return false; } @Override public boolean isUserInRole(String role) { return true; } } My resource:
@Path("/secure") public class TestSecureResource { @GET @PermitAll @Path("/nonsec_test/{text}") public Response nonSecureTest( @PathParam("text") String text){ return Response.status(200).entity(text).build(); } @GET @RolesAllowed("admin") @Path("/sec_test/{text}") public Response secureTest( @PathParam("text") String text){ return Response.status(200).entity(text).build(); } } My ResourceConfig:
@ApplicationPath("/") public class MyApplication extends ResourceConfig { public MyApplication() { super(TestSecureResource.class); register(RolesAllowedDynamicFeature.class); register(AuthorizationFilter.class); } } Relevant parts of my web.xml:
<servlet-name>Jersey Web Application</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer</servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>jersey.config.server.provider.packages</param-name> <param-value>pkg.backend</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>javax.ws.rs.Application</param-name> <param-value>pkg.backend.MyApplication</param-value> </init-param> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> In this specific case, my access to secureTest is always denied. To clarify things; I'm getting HTTP status code 403 - Forbidden.
Thank you guys in advance