Quarkus - Using Security with a JDBC Realm

This guide demonstrates how your Quarkus application can use a database to store your user identities.

Prerequisites

To complete this guide, you need:

• less than 15 minutes

• an IDE

• JDK 1.8+ installed with JAVA_HOME configured appropriately

• Apache Maven 3.5.3+

Architecture

In this example, we build a very simple microservice which offers three endpoints:

• /api/public

• /api/users/me

• /api/admin

The /api/public endpoint can be accessed anonymously.The /api/admin endpoint is protected with RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) where only users granted with the admin role can access. At this endpoint, we use the @RolesAllowed annotation to declaratively enforce the access constraint.The /api/users/me endpoint is also protected with RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) where only users granted with the user role can access. As a response, it returns a JSON document with details about the user.

Solution

We recommend that you follow the instructions in the next sections and create the application step by step.However, you can go right to the completed example.

Clone the Git repository: git clone https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus-quickstarts.git, or download an archive.

The solution is located in the security-jdbc-quickstart directory.

Creating the Maven Project

First, we need a new project. Create a new project with the following command:

mvn io.quarkus:quarkus-maven-plugin:1.0.0.CR1:create \
    -DprojectGroupId=org.acme \
    -DprojectArtifactId=security-jdbc-quickstart \
    -Dextensions="elytron-security-jdbc, jdbc-postgresql, resteasy"
cd security-jdbc-quickstart

This command generates a Maven project, importing the elytron-security-jdbc extensionwhich is an wildfly-elytron-realm-jdbc adapter for Quarkus applications.

Writing the application

Let’s start by implementing the /api/public endpoint. As you can see from the source code below, it is just a regular JAX-RS resource:

package org.acme.elytron.security.jdbc;
import javax.annotation.security.PermitAll;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
@Path("/api/public")
public class PublicResource {
    @GET
    @PermitAll
    @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
    public String publicResource() {
        return "public";
   }
}

The source code for the /api/admin endpoint is also very simple. The main difference here is that we are using a @RolesAllowed annotation to make sure that only users granted with the admin role can access the endpoint:

package org.acme.elytron.security.jdbc;
import javax.annotation.security.RolesAllowed;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
@Path("/api/admin")
public class AdminResource {
    @GET
    @RolesAllowed("admin")
    @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
    public String adminResource() {
         return "admin";
    }
}

Finally, let’s consider the /api/users/me endpoint. As you can see from the source code below, we are trusting only users with the user role.We are using SecurityContext to get access to the current authenticated Principal and we return the user’s name. This information is loaded from the database.

package org.acme.elytron.security.jdbc;
import javax.annotation.security.RolesAllowed;
import javax.inject.Inject;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Context;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import javax.ws.rs.core.SecurityContext;
@Path("/api/users")
public class UserResource {
    @GET
    @RolesAllowed("user")
    @Path("/me")
    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
    public String me(@Context SecurityContext securityContext) {
        return securityContext.getUserPrincipal().getName();
    }
}

Configuring the Application

The elytron-security-jdbc extension requires at least one datasource to access to your database.

quarkus.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql:elytron-security-jdbc
quarkus.datasource.driver=org.postgresql.Driver
quarkus.datasource.username=quarkus
quarkus.datasource.password=quarkus

In our context, we are using PostgreSQL as identity store and we init the database with users and roles.

CREATE TABLE test_user (
  id INT,
  username VARCHAR(255),
  password VARCHAR(255),
  role VARCHAR(255)
);
INSERT INTO test_user (id, username, password, role) VALUES (1, 'admin', 'admin', 'admin');
INSERT INTO test_user (id, username, password, role) VALUES (2, 'user','user', 'user');

We can now configure the Elytron JDBC Realm.

quarkus.security.jdbc.enabled=true
quarkus.security.jdbc.principal-query.sql=SELECT u.password, u.role FROM test_user u WHERE u.username=? (1)
quarkus.security.jdbc.principal-query.clear-password-mapper.enabled=true (2)
quarkus.security.jdbc.principal-query.clear-password-mapper.password-index=1
quarkus.security.jdbc.principal-query.attribute-mappings.0.index=2 (3)
quarkus.security.jdbc.principal-query.attribute-mappings.0.to=groups

The elytron-security-jdbc extension requires at least one principal query to autenticate the user and its identity.

Testing the Application

The application is now protected and the identities are provided by our database.The very first thing to check is to ensure the anonymous access works.

$ curl -i -X GET http://localhost:8080/api/public
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 6
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8
public%

Now, let’s try a to hit a protected resource anonymously.

$ curl -i -X GET http://localhost:8080/api/admin
HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Content-Length: 14
Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8
Not authorized%

So far so good, now let’s try with an allowed user.

$ curl -i -X GET -u admin:admin http://localhost:8080/api/admin
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 5
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8
admin%

By providing the admin:admin credentials, the extension authenticated the user and loaded their roles.The admin user is authorized to access to the protected resources.

The user admin should be forbidden to access a resource protected with @RolesAllowed("user") because it doesn’t have this role.

$ curl -i -X GET -u admin:admin http://localhost:8080/api/users/me
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Content-Length: 34
Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8
Forbidden%

Finally, using the user user works and the security context contains the principal details (username for instance).

curl -i -X GET -u user:user http://localhost:8080/api/users/me
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 4
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8
user%

Advanced Configuration

This guide only covered an easy use case, the extension offers multiple datasources, multiple principal queries configuration as well as a bcrypt password mapper.

quarkus.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql:multiple-data-sources-users
quarkus.datasource.driver=org.postgresql.Driver
quarkus.datasource.username=quarkus
quarkus.datasource.password=quarkus
quarkus.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql:multiple-data-sources-permissions
quarkus.datasource.driver=org.postgresql.Driver
quarkus.datasource.username=quarkus
quarkus.datasource.password=quarkus
quarkus.security.jdbc.enabled=true
quarkus.security.jdbc.principal-query.sql=SELECT u.password FROM test_user u WHERE u.username=?
quarkus.security.jdbc.principal-query.clear-password-mapper.enabled=true
quarkus.security.jdbc.principal-query.clear-password-mapper.password-index=1
quarkus.security.jdbc.principal-query.roles.sql=SELECT r.role_name FROM test_role r, test_user_role ur WHERE ur.username=? AND ur.role_id = r.id
quarkus.security.jdbc.principal-query.roles.datasource=permissions
quarkus.security.jdbc.principal-query.roles.attribute-mappings.0.index=1
quarkus.security.jdbc.principal-query.roles.attribute-mappings.0.to=groups

Configuration Reference

Configuration property fixed at build time - ️ Configuration property overridable at runtime

Future Work

• Propose more password mappers.

• Provide an opinionated configuration.