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Noble Paul commented on SOLR-7275:
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bq. whereas /simplesecurity.json could also be called anything else tomorrow 
and is used by a specific implementation. Doesn't make any sense to merge the 2 
and Solr be bothered about a specific plugin data.

I fail to see why it is not possible, If Solr already supports configuration of 
almost a dozen plugins with standardized formats , what is so special about an 
authorization plugin? This is akin to having {{solrconfig_myplugin.xml}} for 
every custom plugin I write

bq.Is there a reason not to? The client would need information about zk and 
also might need to read information about it, I don't see a reason why we 
should create a new zkclient there.

There should be no need for the client to read stuff from ZK. Take the analogy 
of our current set of plugins. Do they ever try to read solrconfig.xml/ or 
configoverlay.json?  


> Pluggable authorization module in Solr
> --------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SOLR-7275
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-7275
>             Project: Solr
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>            Reporter: Anshum Gupta
>            Assignee: Anshum Gupta
>         Attachments: SOLR-7275.patch
>
>
> Solr needs an interface that makes it easy for different authorization 
> systems to be plugged into it. Here's what I plan on doing:
> Define an interface {{SolrAuthorizationPlugin}} with one single method 
> {{isAuthorized}}. This would take in a {{SolrRequestContext}} object and 
> return an {{SolrAuthorizationResponse}} object. The object as of now would 
> only contain a single boolean value but in the future could contain more 
> information e.g. ACL for document filtering etc.
> The reason why we need a context object is so that the plugin doesn't need to 
> understand Solr's capabilities e.g. how to extract the name of the collection 
> or other information from the incoming request as there are multiple ways to 
> specify the target collection for a request. Similarly request type can be 
> specified by {{qt}} or {{/handler_name}}.
> Flow:
> Request -> SolrDispatchFilter -> isAuthorized(context) -> Process/Return.
> {code}
> public interface SolrAuthorizationPlugin {
>   public SolrAuthorizationResponse isAuthorized(SolrRequestContext context);
> }
> {code}
> {code}
> public  class SolrRequestContext {
>   UserInfo; // Will contain user context from the authentication layer.
>   HTTPRequest request;
>   Enum OperationType; // Correlated with user roles.
>   String[] CollectionsAccessed;
>   String[] FieldsAccessed;
>   String Resource;
> }
> {code}
> {code}
> public class SolrAuthorizationResponse {
>   boolean authorized;
>   public boolean isAuthorized();
> }
> {code}
> User Roles: 
> * Admin
> * Collection Level:
>   * Query
>   * Update
>   * Admin
> Using this framework, an implementation could be written for specific 
> security systems e.g. Apache Ranger or Sentry. It would keep all the security 
> system specific code out of Solr.



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