Security scaffolding

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I've been thinking about Security Scaffolding. It's a different beast than a simple CRUD scaffolding. It'sa bit more difficult to make assumption when you want to generate security flows : which http method to protect ? using only authentification or also authorization ? etc ...

Therefore, I've been thinking of some kind of configuration that the user could provide before the scaffolding process. Keeping it really simple and "human readable" and that could really speed up setting up the security layer :

{
"security":
"createUsers" :["sebi","abtractj"], //1
"createRole" :["simple","admin"], //2
"roleMap": ["simple":["abstractj","sebi"],"admin":["sebi"]], //3
"generateLoginForm" : true, //4
"generateOTPPage" : true, //5
"entities" : { //6
"org.sebi.Task" : {
"GET":

{ "authentification" : false }

,
"POST":

{ "authentification" : true, "authorization" : "simple" }

,
"PUT":

{ "authentification" : true, "authorization" : "admin" }

,
"DELETE":

{ "authentification" : true, "authorization" : "admin" }

}
}
}

Let me detail each of these points to make the discussion easier :

• 1. createUSers : We pass a list of users that we be inserted into the db : this will generate or a SQL script or a class creating the users like in https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-controller-demo/blob/master/src/main/java/org/jboss/aerogear/controller/demo/config/PicketLinkDefaultUsers.java

• 2. createAdmin : We pass a list of roles that we be inserted into the db : this will generate or a SQL script or a class creating the users like in https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-controller-demo/blob/master/src/main/java/org/jboss/aerogear/controller/demo/config/PicketLinkDefaultUsers.java

• 3. roleMap : We create here an association map between users and roles : this will generate or a SQL script or a class creating the users like in https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-controller-demo/blob/master/src/main/java/org/jboss/aerogear/controller/demo/config/PicketLinkDefaultUsers.java

• 4. generateLoginForm : if true, the UI scaffolding will also generate a login form (location and layout depending on the scaffolding provider (AngularJS+Bootstrap, AngularJS+JQM) or by providing a custom template fragment.

• 5. generateOTPPage : if true, the UI scaffolding will also generate a OTP page (location and layout depending on the scaffolding provider (AngularJS+Bootstrap, AngularJS+JQM) or by providing a custom template fragment.

• 6. Entities : Here we configure the security flow for each entity per HTTP methods. Concretely, this will mean :

• On the backend, generate the right route, i.e :

route().from("/task").roles("admin").on(RequestMethod.DELETE).to(Task.class).delete();

• On the frontend, setting the flag or not on a pipe to enable auth. Other option are possible, liking hiding links, disabling button depending on the authorization/authnetification. We should discuss these options.

I think it could be a nice addition, and from the feedback I've heard, this kind of feature really misses today in the current scaffolding tools regarding security. This could be really a killing feature and not hard to implement.

Please comment, ask questions to polish the feature !

Seb