RFR: 8296244: Alternate implementation of user-based authorization Subject APIs that doesn’t depend on Security Manager APIs
Weijun Wang
weijun at openjdk.org
Sat Jan 27 02:15:54 UTC 2024
This code change adds an alternative implementation of user-based authorization `Subject` APIs that doesn't depend on Security Manager APIs. Depending on if the Security Manager is allowed, the methods store the current subject differently. See the spec change in the `Subject.java` file for details. When the Security Manager APIs are finally removed in a future release, this new implementation will be only implementation for these methods.
One major change in the new implementation is that `Subject.getSubject` always throws an `UnsupportedOperationException` since it has an `AccessControlContext` argument but the current subject is no longer associated with an `AccessControlContext` object.
Now it's the time to migrate from the `getSubject` and `doAs` methods to `current` and `callAs`. If the user application is simply calling `getSubject(AccessController.getContext())`, then switching to `current()` would work. If the `AccessControlContext` argument is retrieved from an earlier `getContext()` call and the associated subject might be different from that of the current `AccessControlContext`, then instead of storing the previous `AccessControlContext` object and passing it into `getSubject` to get the "previous" subject, the application should store the `current()` return value directly.
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Commit messages:
- remove exe bits
- remove x bit
- the patch
Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17472/files
Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=17472&range=00
Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8296244
Stats: 620 lines in 14 files changed: 464 ins; 52 del; 104 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17472.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/17472/head:pull/17472
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17472
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