Policies

ODD Platform allows to manage access to resources by creating policies and attaching them to owners through roles.

Policies are described in JSON format and validated with JSON Schema.

JSON policy structure

Each policy is represented by an array of statements and each statement defines a resource with optional conditions and permissions which will be allowed for given resource.

Basic policy structure

{
  "statements": [
    {
      "resource": {
        "type": "",
        "conditions": {}
      },
      "permissions": []
    },
    {
      "resource": {
        "type": "",
        "conditions": {}
      },
      "permissions": []
    }
  ]
}

Resource type

There are 3 possible types of policy resource:

• DATA_ENTITY - Indicates, that current permissions are applied for data entity

• TERM - Indicates, that current permissions are applied for dictionary term

• MANAGEMENT - Indicates, that current permissions are general and work all over the platform

Each type can be combined only with associated permissions and conditions, e.g. if you describe statement for DATA_ENTITY type you can only use data entity's conditions and permissions.

Conditions

Conditions allow to specify the circumstances under which the policy grants permission.

This is an optional field and in case of absence, permissions will be applied to all resource type entries.

Conditions can't be applied to MANAGEMENT resource type

In ODD Platform we have pre-defined condition operators and fields, which can be used with these operators.

Condition operators

Currently we support next operators:

• all - all conditions under this operator must be positive

• any - at least one condition under this operation must be positive

• eq **** - condition field must be equal to some value

• not_eq **** - **** condition field must not be equal to some value

• match **** - condition field must match some value

• not_match **** - **** condition field must not match some value

• is **** - **** condition field must be true

• not_is **** - **** condition field must be false

Condition fields

There are couple of pre-defined fields, which can be used in conditions. Each resource type has its own fields.

Data entity

• dataEntity:oddrn - data entity's ODDRN

• dataEntity:internalName - data entity's business name

• dataEntity:externalName - data entity's ingested name

• dataEntity:type - data entity's type name

• dataEntity:class - data entity's class name

• dataEntity:datasource:oddrn - data entity's datasource ODDRN

• dataEntity:datasource:name - data entity's datasource name

• dataEntity:namespace:name - data entity's namespace name

• dataEntity:tag:name - data entity's tag name

• dataEntity:owner - data entity's owner

• dataEntity:owner:title - data entity's owner title

Term

• term:name - term's name

• term:namespace:name - term's namespace name

• term:tag:name - term's tag name

• term:owner - term's owner

• term:owner:title - term's owner title

Condition examples

1. User must be term's owner, term must be in Open Data Discovery namespace and have tag, which name equals to Test.

   {
     "all": [
       {
         "is": "term:owner"
       },
       {
         "eq": {
           "term:namespace:name": "Open Data Discovery"
         }
       },
       {
         "match": {
           "term:tag:name": "Test"
         }
       }
     ]
   }

2. At least one of the conditions must be positive: User must be data entity's owner OR data entity shouldn't have tag PII.

   {
     "any": [
       {
         "is": "dataEntity:owner"
       },
       {
         "not_eq": {
           "dataEntity:tag:name": "PII"
         }
       }
     ]
   }

Permissions

Please check Permissions section for all available permissions list.

Policy examples

Data entity policy with conditions

Policy allows to update business name, description and custom metadata if user is data entity's owner and this data entity is in Open Data Discovery namespace

{
  "statements": [
    {
      "resource": {
        "type": "DATA_ENTITY",
        "conditions": {
          "all": [
            {
              "is": "dataEntity:owner"
            },
            {
              "eq": {
                "dataEntity:namespace:name": "Open Data Discovery"
              }
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "permissions": [
        "DATA_ENTITY_INTERNAL_NAME_UPDATE",
        "DATA_ENTITY_CUSTOM_METADATA_CREATE",
        "DATA_ENTITY_CUSTOM_METADATA_UPDATE",
        "DATA_ENTITY_CUSTOM_METADATA_DELETE",
        "DATA_ENTITY_DESCRIPTION_UPDATE"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Data entity policy without conditions

All actions are allowed for all data entities

{
  "statements": [
    {
      "resource": {
        "type": "DATA_ENTITY"
      },
      "permissions": [
        "ALL"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Dictionary term policy with conditions

Policy allows to update term information and ownership if it has Customer tag

{
  "statements": [
    {
      "resource": {
        "type": "TERM",
        "conditions": {
          "eq": {
            "term:tag:name": "Customer"
          }
        }      
      },
      "permissions": [
        "TERM_UPDATE",
        "TERM_OWNERSHIP_CREATE",
        "TERM_OWNERSHIP_UPDATE",
        "TERM_OWNERSHIP_DELETE"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Management policy

Policy allows to manage datasources, collectors and namespaces

{
  "statements": [
    {
      "resource": {
        "type": "MANAGEMENT"
      },
      "permissions": [
        "DATA_SOURCE_CREATE",
        "DATA_SOURCE_UPDATE",
        "DATA_SOURCE_DELETE",
        "DATA_SOURCE_TOKEN_REGENERATE",
        "COLLECTOR_CREATE",
        "COLLECTOR_UPDATE",
        "COLLECTOR_DELETE",
        "COLLECTOR_TOKEN_REGENERATE",
        "NAMESPACE_CREATE",
        "NAMESPACE_UPDATE",
        "NAMESPACE_DELETE"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Combined policy

Policy allows to edit term information and permits all actions for data entities from Finance namespace.

{
  "statements": [
    {
      "resource": {
        "type": "TERM",
        "conditions": {
          "eq": {
            "term:namespace:name": "Finance"
          }
        }
      },
      "permissions": [
        "TERM_UPDATE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "resource": {
        "type": "DATA_ENTITY",
        "conditions": {
          "eq": {
            "dataEntity:namespace:name": "Finance"
          }
        }
      },
      "permissions": [
        "ALL"
      ]
    }
  ]
}