Custom tag

Hello,

I want to build a "authorized by link" security tag

<custom:linkEnforcedAuthorization link="app_link">
See this message if the current user has access to the given app_link.
</custom:linkEnforcedAuthorization >

so if the app_link is defined in security config as below

<http>
...
<intercept-url pattern="app_link*" access="PRIV_role1,PRIV_admin,..."/>
...
</http>

Basically I want to make sure that a certain link is displayed only if the user can click on it! In that way I can improve the readability and maintain the code/roles !


Regards,
Q

This is already available in the 3.0 codebase.

I already built it yesterday :) - is there a simpler way for 2.0.3?

Code:

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protected boolean canUserAccessURL( Authentication authentication, String url )
  {
    final String FILTER_LIST = "_filterChainList";
    final String ACCESS_DECISION_MANAGER = "accessDecisionManager";
   
    AccessDecisionManager accessDecisionManager = (AccessDecisionManager)BeanLocator.getBean( ACCESS_DECISION_MANAGER );
    FilterInvocation fi = new FilterInvocation( new URLDrivenHttpServletRequest( getRequest(), url ), getResponse(), new DummyFilterChain() );
    FilterChainList filterChainList = (FilterChainList)BeanLocator.getBean( FILTER_LIST );
    List filters = filterChainList.getFilters();
    for ( int i = 0; i < filters.size(); i++ )
    {
      Object obj = filters.get( i );
      if ( obj instanceof FilterSecurityInterceptor )
      {
        FilterSecurityInterceptor fsi = (FilterSecurityInterceptor)obj;
        ConfigAttributeDefinition attr = fsi.getObjectDefinitionSource().getAttributes( fi );
        try
        {
          accessDecisionManager.decide( authentication, fi, attr );
          return true;
        }
        catch( Exception e )
        {
          if ( log.isDebugEnabled() )
          {
            String message = String.format( "Url %s cannot be access by user %s. Reason:%s", url, authentication.getPrincipal(), e.getMessage() );
            log.debug( message );
          }
        }
        break;
      }
    }
    return false;
  }

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