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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.geode.rest.internal.web.security;
+
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
+
+import org.apache.geode.internal.security.SecurityService;
+import org.apache.geode.security.GemFireSecurityException;
+
+@Component("securityService")
+public class RestSecurityService {
+ private SecurityService securityService =
SecurityService.getSecurityService();
+
+ public boolean authorize(String resource, String operation) {
+ return authorize(resource, operation, null, null);
+ }
+
+ public boolean authorize(String resource, String operation, String region) {
+ return authorize(resource, operation, region, null);
+ }
+
+ public boolean authorize(String resource, String operation, String region,
String key) {
+ try{
+ securityService.authorize(resource, operation, region, key);
+ return true;
+ }
+ catch (GemFireSecurityException ex){
+ return false;
+ }
+ }
+
+ public boolean authorizeKeys(String operation, String region, String[] keys)
{
+ boolean authorized = false;
+ for(String key:keys){
+ authorized = authorize("DATA", operation, region, key);
+ if(!authorized)
+ return false;
+ }
+ return true;
+ }
+}
