Access control lists

Deephaven enables fine-grained access control to data, queries, and reports. This is accomplished through the individual authorization of users and groups, access control lists (ACLs), and account information.

There are two aspects to access control in Deephaven:

  • Authentication is the verification of a user's identity.
  • Authorization is verification of what permissions the user has within the system.

Authentication can be handled internally, by storing a password validation hash in the ACL store, or externally, by configuring Deephaven integration with an external identity provider. Common external authentication integrations are LDAP (for Active Directory or OpenLDAP), SAML (for OAUTH2 systems such as Okta), and key-based authentication using key pairs. If external authentication is in use, a new user with access to Deephaven must to be configured both in the external system and in Deephaven before they can log in and access Deephaven features.

Authorization for Deephaven is handled entirely internally. Deephaven data access rights and system privileges can be granted to individual users or groups. Groups in Deephaven are internal to the Deephaven product. Groups in external authentication systems are not currently used by Deephaven, therefore, when group-based permissions are used in Deephaven, it is necessary to add new users to appropriate Deephaven groups regardless of what group memberships they may have in systems such as Active Directory. When using SAML, the groups from the identity provider may be synchronized to Deephaven on login.

Note

If you are using a Legacy worker, please refer to the Legacy ACLs documentation.

ACL Storage

Deephaven currently has two options for managing the storage of ACL data:

  • etcd, using the same etcd instance that is used to store other system configuration data.
  • SQL. Either MariaDB or MySQL.

As of Vermilion+ (1.20231218), new installations default to etcd. Existing installations continue to use MySQL, unless cluster.cnf is updated. See the Migrating ACL storage topic for details on reconfiguring a system between the two options.

Editing ACLs from the Command Line

Authorized users can edit the access settings and permissions by using the ACL Editor panel in the web UI, or through the command line tool, dhconfig acl.

Import and Export

The dhconfig acl tool can also be used to export the full ACL DB to a file, for migration or backup purposes, or import the full set from a file. The corresponding actions are dhconfig acl export and dhconfig acl import. These actions require a file name to be provided with the --file argument.

When importing data which may already exist, the --overwrite argument should be used. This can also be used with the dhconfig acl import action. Alternatively, dhconfig acl import action can be called with the --replace-all option.

Note

When dhconfig acl import is executed with the --replace-all option, all existing ACL data is deleted before importing the new data from the file. Only the --direct option is allowed for performing imports using the --replace-all option.

Only one of --replace-all, --overwrite or --ignore-existing can be used with dhconfig acl import; if both are provided the command is rejected.

Note

Take care to avoid shell expansion with actions like dhconfig acl row add where argument values contain embedded spaces or other special characters. Apply normal shell quoting rules for these options. For example:

dhconfig acl row add --group desk --namespace Market --table Quotes --acl "new GroupFilterGenerator(\"Region\")"

Setting a Password

To set a password for a user, run the following command which reads the password interactively from the console:

sudo -u irisadmin /usr/illumon/latest/bin/dhconfig acl user set-password --name <username>

To set the password for a user without requiring console input:

sudo -u irisadmin /usr/illumon/latest/bin/dhconfig acl user set-password --name <username> --hashed-password $(openssl passwd -apr1 <your-password>)

Warning

If you specify a password on the command line, it is likely stored in a command history file.

Removing a user's password from the ACL database requires them to use an external authorization provider like Active Directory or SAML for password authentication:

sudo -u irisadmin /usr/illumon/latest/bin/dhconfig acl user remove-password --name <username>

Importing a Public Key

Deephaven allows users to authenticate with challenge-response authentication. To authenticate using challenge-response, the user must have a private key file, and the authentication server must have the corresponding public key. To generate a key file run:

/usr/illumon/latest/bin/generate-iris-keys username # Replace username with the user to

This makes two files: pub-username.base64.txt and priv-username.base64.txt. You must make sure the private key file is not readable by other users -- it is the same as having a password to the Deephaven system.

To add the public key to the authentication server, run:

sudo -u irisadmin /usr/illumon/latest/bin/dhconfig acl publickey import -f /tmp/pub-username.base64.txt

Note

You must use a full path name to the public key file for it to be found by dhconfig acl publickey. After adding the public key to the authentication server, configure your client with private key file.

Web ACL Editor

The easiest way to configure permissions in Deephaven is through the ACL Editor. To create a new ACL editor, click New at the top of your Deephaven IDE, and then select the ACL Editor from the Advanced tab:

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You're now ready to start configuring permissions. Permissions can be set at two basic levels: group permissions and table Access Control Lists (ACLs).

User configuration

The Users tab at the top left of the ACL editor contains options for creating users and groups. Permissions can later be set for either individual users or groups in the Table ACLs tab.

Add a user

To create a new user profile, navigate to the Users tab at the top left of the ACL editor, then click the Create User button and input a username and password.

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Deleting users

To delete a user, click the trash can icon next to the user's name, and then click "Delete User".

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Changing passwords

Deephaven's default system configuration stores passwords (hashes) for users. In this case, if your current user profile has the authority, you can change a user's password by clicking on the key icon next to the user's name and then typing in a new password.

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Note

Many installations of Deephaven do not use local passwords, but rather integrate with an Active Directory service or SAML; in these cases, changes to passwords must be made in the external system. See our guides on configuring LDAP and configuring SAML for more information.

Groups

As the name implies, a group is a collection of users. Groups are useful for assigning permissions to multiple users at once (however, you can still customize individual permissions for specific users in the group).

Add a group

To create a new group, click the Add Group button at the top left of the ACL Editor, and input a group name and at least one constituent user. Groups with no users cannot exist.

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To add an existing user to a group, click on the group icon next to the user's name, and then select a group from the dropdown menu. You can also create a new group this way: just type the new group's name into the text field at the top of the dropdown menu, and then click Add.

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Deleting groups

To delete a group, click the trash can icon next to the group name. Note that some special groups, like allusers, cannot be deleted.

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Deleting a user from a group

To delete a user from a specific group, click on the group icon next to the user's name, and then click on the trash can icon next to the group name from which you want to remove the user.

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Special groups

Deephaven installations come with a number of special groups, such as allusers and iris-superusers. Every user also belongs to a group that matches their user name. You may not add other users to that group, or create a new user that has the same name as a group.

Note

The special groups that are available in your Deephaven installation may differ from the list below, and some of the above special groups may require setup before they can be used.

The following special groups are used to provide specific access in Deephaven:

  • allusers - All Deephaven users are assigned to this group.
    • By default, members of this group may open interactive consoles and create Persistent Queries; this is considered a "full-access" group.
    • The name of the group allowed to perform these operations can be changed by updating the following property: deephaven.access.fullaccess.group=allusers
    • For example, to create a deephaven-fullaccess group for full access, the following property could be added: deephaven.access.fullaccess.group=deephaven-fullaccess
      • A user not assigned to the deephaven-fullaccess group would not be allowed to create Persistent Queries or start an interactive console.
  • deephaven-noninteractive - Members of this group are not able to open a console, but are allowed access through the controller if they have the required privileges (i.e., they can start and stop workers, create queries, and so on). They are also allowed to connect to a query if they have the required privileges for that query. See Persistent Query Access Control.
    • The name of the group assigned to this privilege level can be changed by editing the following property: deephaven.access.noninteractive.group=deephaven-noninteractive
    • This group does not exist when the system is first installed. See: Add a group above.
  • deephaven-queryviewonly - Members of this group can view queries, but are not allowed to create or edit queries.
    • If a user is not assigned to a different privileged group, they are presumed to be in this group (in a default installation, all users are able to create and edit queries because of the allusers group).
    • The name of the group assigned to this privilege level can be changed by editing the following property: deephaven.access.queryviewonly.group=deephaven-queryviewonly
    • This group does not exist when the system is first installed. See: Add a group above.
  • iris-acleditors - Members of this group can use the ACL Editor panel.
  • iris-datamanagers - Members of this group are privileged users who can:
    • Create import, merge, and data validation queries, and in-worker services.
    • Create live queries and batch queries to run on merge servers.
    • Delete intraday data via data validation queries, or using the data control tool (dhctl).
  • iris-dataimporters - Members of this group can:
    • Create import queries and in-worker services.
    • Create live queries and batch queries on merge servers.
    • Not create merge or data validation queries if they are not a member of a group with those privileges.
  • iris-datamergers - Members of this group can create merge queries.
  • iris-querymanagers - Members of this group can stop and start all of the queries, but are not allowed to edit them or see the tables (unless otherwise permissioned).
  • iris-schemamanagers - Members of this group can use the Schema Editor panel.
  • iris-superusers - Members of this group can view, edit, start, stop, and delete any Persistent Queries and all tables within a Persistent Query.

Adding Users to Special Groups

Some special groups (like deephaven-queryviewonly) do not exist by default. However, you do not need to configure the group or do anything special to set it up - just click the Group icon next to a user's name, and type in the name of the special group that you want to add the user to. Click "Add" to create the special group and add the user.

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View-Only Users

There may be instances when you want to share limited views of your data while keeping your queries private. You can create shared users / view-only users in the ACL Editor by adding users to the deephaven-queryviewonly ACL group:

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If the group does not exist yet, type deephaven-queryviewonly and click Add. This creates the group and adds the user to it.

Members of this group are not allowed to create or edit queries, and can only view the specific Persistent Queries that denote them as a viewer. Permissions for Persistent Queries can be set using the Persistent Query Access Control panel in the Query Monitor.

Table ACLs

The Table ACLs allows you to configure users' access to specific namespaces and tables. You can be as broad as to give all users unrestricted access to a whole namespace, or as narrow as to only allow a user to view a single row of a single column in a single table. Before returning a table to a user, Deephaven applies all of the ACLs for that user.

By default, regular users (i.e., not part of the iris-superusers group) have very limited table access. They can access some data in DbInternal tables, such as log entries for workers that they started and for Persistent Queries that they own, and (if it is installed), they can view data from the LearnDeephaven sample namespace. All other table permissions must be explicitly granted to regular users.

Important

By default, regular users do not have access to read from any user tables.

Caution

The syntax of row and column ACL filters is not validated when added or updated via the Web ACL Editor. Therefore, administrators should validate these ACLs by operating as an affected user and confirming expected results.

Configuration

To configure the system so that users are automatically granted read access to user tables created in a namespace that matches their user name, add a table ACL that uses the OwnNamespaceFilterGenerator. This filter generator allows all users to read from any tables in a namespace that matches their user name. Typically this ACL is added for the allusers group, with * for namespace and * for table, but more restrictive ACLs can be used. One such possibility would be setting an OwnNamespaceFilterGenerator ACL for a UserTablesUsers group so that only members of that group automatically have access to user tables in a namespace that matches their user name.

Note

The namespace to user name match from the OwnNamespaceFilterGenerator is a case-sensitive match, so, User1 would not get read access to tables in the user1 namespace.

Row ACLs

Row ACLs determine the rows that a user can see in the table, but cannot change the columns that a user can see. Row ACLs are implemented with where operations automatically applied to the table.

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Each Row ACL consists of four components:

  • User/Group: The name of the user or group to which this ACL is associated.
  • Namespace: The namespace associated with this ACL, to apply to all tables. This may be the wild card *, which means all namespaces are included. Note: If the namespace is *, the table must also be *.
  • Table Name: The table with which this ACL is associated. The wild card, *, applies this entry to all tables within the namespace.
  • ACL Table Row Filter: A string that represents Java code to create a FilterGenerator for this table. See the syntax below for more details.

Column ACLs

Column ACLs provide administrators a way to restrict access to data on a columnar level. Column ACL data restriction manifests as actual values being replaced by null, in contrast to Row ACLs which restrict access by explicitly filtering rows out of the table. This can be useful when all users must have access to some subset of the data in all rows of a particular table. For example, a manager may need to be able to monitor the current execution of all orders within a system, but may not be allowed access to pricing data for some or all of the symbols.

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The rules for Column ACL application follow the same rules as for Table (Row) ACLs. The most specific ACL for each group is the one applied. Additionally, Column ACLs are defined with a comma-separated list of column names to which the ACL applies.

Each Column ACL consists of five components:

  • User/Group: The name of the user or group to which this ACL is associated.
  • Namespace: The namespace associated with this ACL, or * for all namespaces.
  • Table Name: The table with which this ACL is associated, or * for all tables.
  • Columns: The set of columns in the table for which this ACL applies, or * for all columns. Note that the columns must exist for the table or tables denoted by the above parameters.
  • ACL Table Column Filter: A string that represents Java code to create a FilterGenerator for this table. Instead of filtering rows out like a Row ACL, matched rows permit viewing the the specified Columns. Rows that are unmatched, replace the actual column values with null values. See the syntax below for more details.

Input Table ACLs

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Setting the authorization for individual/group access for reading data in tables is accomplished through the Table ACLs tab. However, setting the authorization of individuals or groups to edit tables is accomplished in the Input Tables tab.

Note

When a user or group is authorized to edit a table, the entire table may be edited. Setting authorization for editing only a portion of the table is not supported.

ACL Table Filters

Using Java code to generate the filters provides additional flexibility. For example, a filter generator could be new AccountFilterGenerator(), which would filter the Account column based on the accounts for which the current user is authorized.

However, writing Java code to generate the filters can be a bit tedious, so there are two shorthand notations available:

  • * means that all rows in the table should be presented to the user, and
  • if a filter generator is of the form whereClause(A, B), whereClause(C, D), then the rows that match (A && B) || (C && D) are available to the user.

To compute the ACLs that should be used for a given user, the following steps are taken:

  1. All of the user's groups are collected into a list.
  2. For each group, get the ACL generator for the table, namespace, or default (in that order).
  3. If no ACL generator was found, then deny permission.
  4. Run all of the ACL generators (unless one returns the empty set of filters, which means permit everything).
  5. If all generators returned null, deny permission (Note: If a generator returns null, that means deny; if it returns an empty list, that means permit everything).
  6. Apply a .whereOneOf() operation to the table with all the returned filters.

When computing the list of ACLs for a table, the most specific ACL for a particular group is used. For example, if "UserXYZ" belongs to the groups "groupABC", "groupXYZ", and "allusers", and if the following ACLs exist:

GroupNamespaceTableFilter
allusers**new OwnNamespaceFilterGenerator()
groupABCSystemEQPositionCachenew AccountFilterGenerator()
groupABCSystemEQ**
groupXYZSystemEQ*whereClause(`false`)

Then, the ACL generators that would be used for the SystemEQ.PositionCache table are:

  • new OwnNamespaceFilterGenerator() for allusers, because no more specific ACL exists for that group.
  • new AccountFilterGenerator() for groupABC, because SystemEQ.PositionCache is more specific than SystemEQ.* (the * filter would be unused in this case).
  • whereClause(`false`) for groupXYZ

The OwnNamespaceFilterGenerator would return null because the SystemEQ namespace is not equal to the username UserXYZ, thus contributing no filters. The AccountFilterGenerator would return a match filter for the account column. Finally, the whereClause(`false`) produces a match filter with no results. This has the effect of allowing the user to see an empty table, but without denying permission. When taken together, groupABC could see rows in SystemEQ.PositionCache that have the appropriate accounts configured.

If any other table from the SystemEQ namespace were requested, then the SystemEQ.* ACL would be the most specific ACL for group ABC, resulting in an ACL of *, which would short-circuit further evaluation; and all rows would be visible.

Note

Adding a user to a group can only increase the permissions enabled for that user. Users cannot lose any existing permissions by being added to another group (e.g., if a group has the NullFilterGenerator() applied, any pre-existing user permissions would not be impacted.)

To add a new table filter, type the Java code into the ACL Table * Filter field and click Add ACL.

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Here are Deephaven's built-in filter generators:

  • EmptyFilterGenerator() - Provides full access; it can be abbreviated as *.
  • SimpleFilterGenerator() - Passes through a simple where clause; it can be abbreviated by using a filter generator string beginning with whereClause.
  • AccountFilterGenerator() - Creates a match filter for accounts for which this user is authorized; suitable for restricting position logs, trade logs, etc. to just the accounts a user should see. By default, this filters the Account column, but an optional column name can be passed into the generator.
  • StrategyFilterGenerator() - Creates a match filter for strategies for which this user is authorized. By default, this filters the Strategy column, but an optional column name can be passed in to the generator.
  • OwnNamespaceFilterGenerator() - Produces an empty filter (i.e., allow everything) when the namespace matches the effective user name; otherwise produces null (i.e., no filter). This allows users to have full access to their own user tables.
  • UsernameFilterGenerator() - Creates a match filter for this user's username. By default, this filters the Username column, but an optional column name can be passed in to the generator.
  • UserCollectionFilterGenerator() - Creates a filter for this user's username within a collection. By default, this filters the Username column, but an optional column name can be passed in to the generator. This is useful, for example if a table column contains a list of authorized users for each row.
  • GroupFilterGenerator() - Creates a match filter for groups to which this user belongs. By default, this filters the Group column, but an optional column name can be passed in to the generator.
  • WorkerNameFilterGenerator() - Produces a filter that matches only this worker. By default, this filters the WorkerName column, but an optional column name can be passed in to the generator. This is useful for filtering query logs.
    • Note: the QueryPerformanceLog, UpdatePerformanceLog, and QueryOperationPerformanceLog contain several user name columns which may be used for filtering in the latest version of Deephaven, so this FilterGenerator is no longer commonly used.
  • RequestIdFromWorkerNameFilterGenerator() - Produces a dynamic where filter based on the DbInternal.QueryPerformanceLog table (we know the worker of a database, and this log lets us correlate a worker with a request ID). By default, this filters the RequestId column, but an optional column name can be passed in to the generator.
    • Note: the QueryPerformanceLog, UpdatePerformanceLog, and QueryOperationPerformanceLog contain several user name columns which may be used for filtering in the latest version of Deephaven, so this FilterGenerator is no longer commonly used.
  • NullFilterGenerator() - Provides no access to a table; only useful to override a less-specific ACL for a group.
  • ConjunctiveFilterGenerator(fg1, fg2, ...) - Runs filter generators fg1, fg2, etc., and returns a filter that is the conjunction of the filters returned by the passed-in filter generators. You can use this to further restrict the output of another filter generator.
  • CopyFilterGenerator(Namespace, Table) - Copies the ACLs from another table to this table.
  • CombiningFilterGenerator(Type) - ACLs are normally applied disjunctively. In some cases, users may want to override this behavior and combine some group filters conjunctively instead. This generator is initialized with the operation type desired (Type.Conjunctive or Type.Disjunctive) and as a single method addFilter(group, generator) to which specific filter generators can be added. Note that this generator is intended for programmatic ACLs.

Persistent Query ACLs

Deephaven makes it simple to share the results of Persistent Queries with other users. You can add groups to your Persistent Query as either "Admins" or "Viewers". If you have not defined any ACLs, then all Admin and Viewer groups can see all the results of the query. This makes it simple to share results with a chosen set of users.

Different users are likely members of different groups and have different restrictions that must be followed when providing them data. Deephaven provides Edge ACLs for this purpose.

Edge ACLs function the same way Source ACLs do in that, based on the user requesting the data, a set of filters are generated and applied to the table before being returned. The difference is that Edge ACLs are attached directly to derived tables and are applied dynamically when a user fetches the table.

Warning

As soon as you add an ACL to one result, the remainder of the exported objects are blocked by default. You must apply ACLs to each object that you want to make available to Viewers. The owner of a query and users in one of the admin groups do not have ACLs applied, and tables are returned without filtering.

  • When no per-table ACLs are defined, the behavior of the Deephaven system is controlled by the property PersistentQuery.openSharingDefault, which defaults to true.
  • When PersistentQuery.openSharingDefault is true, if no filters are defined on any table, viewers can see all of the rows in all the tables produced by the query. If a filter is defined for at least one table, then viewers cannot see any tables without filters. This has the effect of making it convenient to let people see the full results of a query. Assuming care is taken to restrict part of the query, the parts that have not been addressed from a security perspective are hidden.
  • When PersistentQuery.openSharingDefault is false, viewers are not permitted to load any tables from the query if no filters are defined on any table. This requires explicit ACLs to be defined for all tables to be shared, but makes inadvertent sharing of data less likely.

Edge ACLs are created using the EdgeAclProvider.builder() method, and then are built up using the rowAcl() and columnAcl() methods. For each of these, you provide a group and a Filter Generator to produce the desired ACL when a user requests the table.

Once you have specified the ACLs desired, you create the ACL object using the build() method and can then attach the ACLs using the applyTo() method, as in the example below.

The following example assumes that a table "TickingTable" has already been created. Edge ACLs are created using a builder that contains a few simple methods for building up ACL sets.

Once build() is called, you have an ACL object that can then be used to transform one or more tables using the applyTo() method.

Note that you must overwrite the scope variable with the result of the application, since Table properties are immutable.

import io.deephaven.enterprise.acl.EdgeAclProvider
import io.deephaven.enterprise.acl.AclFilterGenerator

def ACL = EdgeAclProvider.builder()
        .rowAcl("NYSE", AclFilterGenerator.where("Exchange in `NYSE`"))
        .columnAcl("LimitPrice", "*", AclFilterGenerator.fullAccess())
        .columnAcl("LimitPrice", ["Price", "TradeVal"], AclFilterGenerator.group("USym"))
        .build()

TickingTable = ACL.applyTo(TickingTable)
from deephaven_enterprise.edge_acl import EdgeAclProvider
import deephaven_enterprise.acl_generator as acl_generator

ACL = (
    EdgeAclProvider.builder()
    .row_acl("NYSE", acl_generator.where("Exchange in `NYSE`"))
    .column_acl("LimitPrice", "*", acl_generator.full_access())
    .column_acl("LimitPrice", ["Price", "TradeVal"], acl_generator.group("USym"))
    .build()
)

TickingTable = ACL.apply_to(TickingTable)

For hierarchical tables (i.e., rollup tables and tree tables), the same builder and applyTo method are used. For these tables, the ACL filters are applied to the source of the rollup or tree, and then the rollup or tree operation is re-applied to the filtered source. This ensures that the aggregated results for a given user are derived from only those rows that the ACL permits.

For tree tables, the builder includes an additional orphanPromotion method (called orphan_promotion in Python). If orphans are not promoted, then when the ACL permits a row but not all of its parents, the child row is not accessible. If orphans are promoted, then when the ACL permits a child row but not its parent, the child row is displayed at the top level. Orphans are not promoted by default. The following example filters viewers to only rows with odd IDs, both with and without orphan promotion:

import io.deephaven.enterprise.acl.EdgeAclProvider
import io.deephaven.enterprise.acl.AclFilterGenerator
import io.deephaven.api.filter.Filter;

src = newTable(intCol("ID", 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10),
        intCol("Parent", NULL_INT, NULL_INT, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21)).update("OParent=Parent")

tree = src.tree("ID", "Parent")

def ACL1 = EdgeAclProvider.builder()
        .rowAcl("allusers", AclFilterGenerator.where("ID % 2 == 1"))
        .build()

treeOrphaned = ACL1.applyTo(tree)

def ACL2 = EdgeAclProvider.builder()
        .rowAcl("allusers", AclFilterGenerator.where("ID % 2 == 1"))
        .orphanPromotion(true)
        .build()

treeDeorphaned = ACL2.applyTo(tree)
from deephaven_enterprise.edge_acl import EdgeAclProvider
import deephaven_enterprise.acl_generator as acl_generator


from deephaven import new_table
from deephaven.column import int_col

src = new_table(
    [
        int_col("ID", [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]),
        int_col("Parent", [None, None, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21]),
    ]
).update("OParent=Parent")

tree = src.tree("ID", "Parent")

ACL = (
    EdgeAclProvider.builder()
    .row_acl("allusers", acl_generator.where("ID % 2 == 1"))
    .build()
)

tree_orphaned = ACL.apply_to(tree)

ACL = (
    EdgeAclProvider.builder()
    .row_acl("allusers", acl_generator.where("ID % 2 == 1"))
    .orphan_promotion(True)
    .build()
)

tree_deorphaned = ACL.apply_to(tree)

The parent identifier column is an important part of the table structure when traversing a tree. When a row is orphaned and subsequently promoted, the orphan promotion process sets the parent value to null, and the original value for the parent is no longer available. To account for this change, the example assigns the original parent value to the OParent column, which is not used as a parent identifier column so it is unchanged by the orphan promotion.

The AclFilterGenerator class provides some helpful factory methods for commonly used ACL types. See the language API documentation for more details.

There are two types of ACLs: Row Acls and Column ACLs.

Row Acls

Row ACLs control access to the rows of a table based on the user requesting the table. These ACLs control the overall visibility of a table to users. For example, if the ACLs attached to a table do not contain any mappings for any group a user is a member of, that user is denied access to the table entirely.

Column ACLs

Column ACLs allow you to restrict access to values within a column. You could use these to hide pricing data in a table from a specific group while allowing data in other columns to be present.

Caution

Column ACLs require a Default ACL to be applied for unmentioned columns. If no default is provided, when Column ACLs are applied, values in any columns not explicitly mentioned are hidden from view.

A simple default ACL would allow access to all unmentioned columns. The "*" parameter only matches columns that have not already been matched by a more specific ACL.

aclBuilder.columnAcl("allusers", "*", AclFilterGenerator.fullAccess())
aclBuilder.column_acl("allusers", "*", acl_generator.full_access())

Filter Generators

Filter Generators form the backbone of the ACL system. Since the system cannot apply filters to a table before it knows the user who is requesting access, it encodes the ACL as a set of instructions on how to produce the filters, called Filter Generators.

A Filter Generator takes the user's credentials and produces one or more filters that are applied disjunctively to the table before providing the result to the user. There are a few built in Filter Generator types that can be easily constructed using the AclFilterGenerator class.

Where

AclFilterGenerator.where(@NotNull String filter)
acl_generator.where(filter: str)

This Filter Generator simply produces the provided where clause. This is useful when you need to apply a blanket filter to a table based on a group. For example:

aclBuilder.rowAcl("MarketUs", AclFilterGenerator.where("Exchange in `NYSE`"))
acl_builder.row_acl("MarketUs", acl_generator.where("Exchange in `NYSE`"))

When the requesting user is a member of the 'MarketUs' group, this produces a filter that selects only the rows in the 'Exchange' column that match 'NYSE' .

Where In

The Where In filter generator is a bit more complicated than the others. This Filter generator produces a whereIn clause using a "Set" table containing the user's grouping information.

AclFilterGenerator.whereIn(String setNamespace, String setTableName, String setGroupColumn, String[] setFilters, boolean useHistorical, String... matchExpressions)

AclFilterGenerator.whereIn(Table setTable, String setGroupColumn, String[] setFilters, String... matchExpressions)
acl_generator.where_in(set_namespace: str, set_table_name: str, set_group_column: str, set_filters: list[str], use_historical: bool, *match_expressions: str)

acl_generator.where_in_table(set_table: Table, set_group_column: str, set_filters: list[str], *match_expressions: str)

When the generator creates the filter, it filters the "Set" table down to only groups the user is a member of using the "groupColumn" parameter. Next, it applies a whereIn to the requested table using the filtered set table and the match expressions provided.

The "Set" table may be provided either as a Namespace.TableName pair, to be fetched from the database, or directly as a Table instance.

Group

This Filter Generator produces a filter that selects rows from the table where the value in the 'group' column matches a group the user belongs to.

AclFilterGenerator.group(@NotNull String groupColumn)
acl_generator.group(groupColumn: str)

In the next example, let's assume the user 'mark' is a member of 'Restricted', 'ETF', and 'Derivative', and the table has an ACL constructed like this:

aclBuilder.rowAcl("Restricted", AclFilterGenerator.group("SecurityType"))
acl_builder.row_acl("Restricted", acl_generator.group("SecurityType"))

Mark can only see rows in the table where 'SecurityType' is either 'ETF' or 'Derivative'.

Conjunctive

The following filter generator simply combines the results of the parameter filter generators conjunctively; in other words, users can only see rows that match ALL of the provided ACLs.

AclFilterGeneratorconjunctive(AclFilterGenerator... generators)
acl_generator.conjunctive(generators: list[AclFilterGenerator])

Disjunctive

The following filter generator simply combines the results of the parameter filter generators disjunctively; in other words, users can only see rows that match ANY of the provided ACLs.

AclFilterGenerator.disjunctive(AclFilterGenerator... generators)
acl_generator.disjunctive(generators: list[AclFilterGenerator])

Full Access

This filter generator simply gives the group full access to the table.

AclFilterGenerator.fullAccess()
acl_generator.full_access()

No Access

This filter generator denies all access to the table for this group. Note that ACLs are a union of group permissions, so if a user has permission to view data via another group, then they can still access the data.

AclFilterGenerator.noAccess()
acl_generator.no_access()