This library provides a framework for authentication/authorization based on the Basic Authentication scheme specified in RFC 7617.
The Basic Authentication scheme transmits credentials as user-id/password pairs encoded using Base64. This scheme is not considered to be a secure method of user authentication unless used in conjunction with some external secure system such as TLS as the user ID and password are passed over the network as cleartext.
The Ballerina auth
library facilitates auth providers that are to be used by the clients and listeners of different protocol connectors.
Represents the file user store based listener Basic Auth provider, which is used to authenticate the provided credentials against the provided file user store configurations. The users are denoted by a section in the Config.toml
file. The username, password, and the scopes of a particular user are denoted as keys under the users
section as shown below. For multiple users, the complete section has to be duplicated.
[[ballerina.auth.users]]
username="alice"
password="xxx"
scopes=["read", "write"]
Represents the LDAP-based listener Basic Auth provider, which is used to authenticate the provided credentials against the provided LDAP user store configurations. This connects to an active directory or an LDAP, which retrieves the necessary user information and performs authentication and authorization.
Represents the client Basic Auth provider, which is used to authenticate with an external endpoint by generating a Basic Auth token against the provided credential configurations.
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This repository only contains the source code for the module.
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Download and install Java SE Development Kit (JDK) version 21 (from one of the following locations).
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Export your GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT) with the
read package
permission as follows:export packageUser=<Username> export packagePAT=<Personal Access Token>
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Download and install Docker.
Execute the commands below to build from the source.
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To build the package:
./gradlew clean build
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To run the tests:
./gradlew clean test
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To run a group of tests
./gradlew clean test -Pgroups=<test_group_names>
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To build the without the tests:
./gradlew clean build -x test
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To debug package implementation:
./gradlew clean build -Pdebug=<port>
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To debug with Ballerina language:
./gradlew clean build -PbalJavaDebug=<port>
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Publish the generated artifacts to the local Ballerina central repository:
./gradlew clean build -PpublishToLocalCentral=true
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Publish the generated artifacts to the Ballerina central repository:
./gradlew clean build -PpublishToCentral=true
As an open source project, Ballerina welcomes contributions from the community.
For more information, go to the contribution guidelines.
All contributors are encouraged to read the Ballerina Code of Conduct.
- For more information go to the
auth
library. - For example demonstrations of the usage, go to Ballerina By Examples.
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- Post all technical questions on Stack Overflow with the #ballerina tag.