Source code for vmware.vapi.security.session

"""
Session Security Helper
"""

__author__ = 'VMware, Inc.'
__copyright__ = 'Copyright (c) 2015 VMware, Inc.  All rights reserved.'

from vmware.vapi.core import SecurityContext
from vmware.vapi.lib.constants import SCHEME_ID
from vmware.vapi.security.rest import SecurityContextParser

SESSION_SCHEME_ID = 'com.vmware.vapi.std.security.session_id'
SESSION_ID = 'sessionId'
# String used to identify session identifier in REST API HTTP headers
REST_SESSION_ID_KEY = 'vmware-api-session-id'


[docs]def create_session_security_context(session_id): """ Create a security context for Session Id based authentication scheme :type session_id: :class:`str` :param session_id: Session ID :rtype: :class:`vmware.vapi.core.SecurityContext` :return: Newly created security context """ return SecurityContext({SCHEME_ID: SESSION_SCHEME_ID, SESSION_ID: session_id})
[docs]class SessionSecurityContextParser(SecurityContextParser): """ Security context parser used by the REST presentation layer that builds a security context if the REST request has session identifier either in the header or in the cookie. """ def __init__(self): """ Initialize SessionSecurityContextParser """ SecurityContextParser.__init__(self)
[docs] def build(self, request): """ Build the security context if the request has the header that contains the session identifier or a cookie that has the session identifier. The method will first check for session identifier in the cookie, if it is not present, then it will check in the HTTP headers. The session security context is created based on the first session identifier it finds. :type request: :class:`werkzeug.wrappers.Request` :param request: Request object :rtype: :class:`vmware.vapi.core.SecurityContext` or ``None`` :return: Security context object """ if request.cookies: session_id = request.cookies.get(REST_SESSION_ID_KEY) if session_id: return create_session_security_context(session_id) else: session_id = request.headers.get(REST_SESSION_ID_KEY) if session_id: return create_session_security_context(session_id)