scopula

A Clojure library designed to manage a scope convention to handle fine grained authorization access.

OAuth2 make all the authorization access pass through a single dimension: the scopes.

scopes are case sensitive strings without any space that represent and authorization access. From OAuth2 RFC (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-3.3):

The value of the scope parameter is expressed as a list of space- delimited, case-sensitive strings. The strings are defined by the authorization server. If the value contains multiple space-delimited strings, their order does not matter, and each string adds an additional access range to the requested scope.

scope       = scope-token *( SP scope-token )
scope-token = 1*( %x21 / %x23-5B / %x5D-7E )

In order to manage a fine grained authorizations this lib use a convention for scope formats. For example, we often need to distinguish between a full scope that will provide full access to some resource, and read-only access. Sometimes we also want to limit the access to some sub-resource. Here are some example for our convention:

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users full access to users resource users/profile access to users profile only users/profile:read access to users profile read-only users/profile/email:write access to users profile only email write-only

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Mainly : is only authorized to split between access read=/=write=/=rw (nothing implies rw)

Sub resources are separated by / we can

This library provide helper functions to check that users scope will also grants users/profile/email and users/profile:read

We also provide helpers to normalize set of scopes:

>>> (normalize-scopes #{\"users\" \"users/profile/email:read\" \"admin\"})
#{\"users\" \"admin\"}

as users/profile/email:read is redundant it was removed.

Note scopes are meant to be used in an OAuth2 access in mind and thus are generally manipulated as a set of scopes.

Scopes that do not have any subpath are called root scopes.

This is important because it is easy to add, union scopes. But it is generally impossible to remove just a sub-scope as it would mean we should know all the sub-paths of some root-scope and add the difference. Scope are additive by their nature.

This is why the API only provide a remove-root-scope.

Usage

Here is the API

• (is-scope-format-valid? str), return true if the string is a valid scope for our convention,
• (is-subscope? scope-to-check super-scope), return true if the provided scope is a subscope,
• (access-granted scopes required), return true if the required scope are "contained" in the scopes,
• (root-scope scope) returns the root-scope part of a scope
• (is-root-scope? scope) returns true if the scope is a root-scope (access are authorized)
• (normalize-scopes scopes) remove all duplicate scopes, normalize-scopes is idempotent (= identity (comp normalize-scopes normalize-scopes))
• add-scope to add one scope to a set of scopes
• scope-union to make the union of two set of scopes
• remove-root-scope to remove a root-scope (access accepted) from a set of scopes.
• remove-root-scopes to remove some root-scopes (access accepted) from a set of scopes.

See ./test/scopula/core~test~.clj

License

Copyright © 2019 Cisco

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License either version 1.0 or (at your option) any later version.