[jira] [Created] (OAK-3392) Security shouldn't be bound to a SecurityProvider

["Francesco Mari (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Francesco Mari created OAK-3392:
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             Summary: Security shouldn't be bound to a SecurityProvider
                 Key: OAK-3392
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-3392
             Project: Jackrabbit Oak
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: core
    Affects Versions: 1.3.5
            Reporter: Francesco Mari
            Assignee: Francesco Mari


{{ConfigurationBase}}, the base class for security configurations, allows a  {{SecurityProvider}} to be injected in a security configuration at will. This mechanism is used to implement a basic form dependency injection in {{SecurityProviderImpl}}, where every configuration receives a the instance of {{SecurityProviderImpl}} that is currently using it.

This mechanism is problematic in a dynamic scenario like OSGi, where a security configuration can be loaded independently from the {{SecurityProvider}} that is using it. Moreover, if multiple implementations of {{SecurityProvider}} are available, it is impossible to determine which instance of {{SecurityProvider}} will be injected in the security configuration.

I suggest to remove the reference to a {{SecurityProvider}} in the security configurations. If a {{SecurityProvider}} is needed, it should be instead passed as parameter in the appropriate methods.



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