Hi Nirubikaa, On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 11:32 AM Nirubikaa Ravikumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > > > I am working on implementing an Open Policy Agent(OPA) authorization > handler for WSO2 Identity Server. > > > OPA is a lightweight general-purpose policy engine. Policies in OPA are > written in a high-level declarative language. You can find more information > about OPA from [1]. > > > The main Idea of this Authorization handler is to authorize a user based > on the policy which is stored at the OPA server, similar to what we already > do with XACML. > According to the shared diagram, AFAIU OPA server will evaluate the policy and sends the decision to IS. But we already have a XACML engine to do the same job. In that case, could you please explain more on what is the specific reason for implementing an OPA even though we already have XACML engine to evaluate the policies?. Once we implement the OPA are we planning to deprecate XAML engine? Thanks, Nila. > [1] https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/latest > > > > Please find the flow Diagram attached to this email. > > > > > Thanks, > > > -- > R.Nirubikaa > Software Engineering Intern | WSO2 > M: O779108852 > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "IAM team" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/wso2.com/d/msgid/iam-group/CA%2BP04X9vN_8m-ZELn8wVpxK8ZdZXjsqKeGdGMozcYCcaKLnQ4A%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/a/wso2.com/d/msgid/iam-group/CA%2BP04X9vN_8m-ZELn8wVpxK8ZdZXjsqKeGdGMozcYCcaKLnQ4A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Nilasini Thirunavukkarasu Senior Software Engineer - WSO2 Email : [email protected] Mobile : +94775241823 Web : http://wso2.com/ <http://wso2.com/signature>
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