@sap/ams-dev

This module provides tooling support for extending applications which authenticate users via the SAP Cloud Identity Services with AMS (Authorization Management Service) authorization checks.

The primary functionality provided by this module is enabling tests on local DCL (Data Control Language) bundles. To this end, it provides the compile-dcl script to produce DCN (Data Control Notation) files for the ADC (Authorization Decision Controller) used in @sap/ams versions >= 1.17.0.

CAP integration

For CAP (Cloud Application Programming Model) applications, the plugin integrates nicely into mocked auth and hybrid environments which allows developing local applications with AMS bound to SAP Identity service instances on SAP BTP. In both cases, it reacts to changes of DCL files. During mocked auth, it compiles them to DCN files. When using ias auth, it provides a feature to push the policies to the AMS server from the SAP Identity service binding.

For details, refer to the documentation of @sap/ams.

DCL compilation

This module provides a bin script called compile-dcl which compiles .dcl files to .dcn files which serve as input for running an application using AMS on the DCL bundle locally, e.g. for unit tests.

 **Info:** As the DCL compiler is written in Java, the script requires a Java installation.

If you install this module globally via npm, you can call the compile-dcl CLI script from any shell. If you install it locally in a project, you can run it via npx compile-dcl (or npx --package=@sap/ams-dev compile-dcl to make 100% sure you are running the compile-dcl script from this module).

compile-dcl

The script requires both a source and an output directory as parameter in addition to some optional parameters (see compile-dcl --help):

Usage: compile-dcl --dcl [DCL_SRC_ROOT_DIR] --output [DCN_OUTPUT_ROOT_DIR]

Options:
      --help       Show help                                           [boolean]
      --version    Show version number                                 [boolean]
  -d, --dcl        path to DCL root directory                [string] [required]
  -o, --output     path to DCN output root directory         [string] [required]
  -l, --log-level  log level
                [string] [choices: "info", "error", "silent"] [default: "error"]
  -f, --failOn     fail on error, deprecation or warning
        [string] [choices: "error", "deprecation", "warning"] [default: "error"]

Examples:
  compile-dcl -d src/dcl -o build/dcn  compiles DCL in root directory src/dcl to
                                       DCN in output root directory build/dcn

We recommend the use of --failOn warning to not miss out on potential future deprecation warnings regarding the DCL syntax.

Testing with a local DCL bundle

To test your application with local DCL policy files and mocked policy assignments, follow these steps depending on the @sap/ams version of your project.

@sap/ams 3.x

1. Compile the DCL bundle to DCN before running the application
2. Use AuthorizationManagementService#fromLocalDcn(dcnRoot, config) to create the AuthorizationManagementService singleton with the following config:

• dcnRoot (string) the root directory of the DCN compilation.
• config.assignments (string | PolicyAssignments, optional) a path to a PolicyAssignments JSON file or an in-memory PolicyAssignments object.

In PolicyAssignments, the assignments are based on the SAP Identity Service app_tid (tenant) and scim_id from the user's (mocked) token.

{
  "tenant1": {
      "user1": [
        "sales.readAllSalesOrders"
      ],
      "user2": [
        "sales.readAllSalesOrders",
        "sales.writeAllSalesOrders"
      ]
  },
  "tenant2": {
      "user1": [
        "sales.readAllSalesOrders",
        "sales.writeAllSalesOrders"
      ]
  }
}

In your package.json, you could set-up the pretest and posttest lifecycle scripts to perform the necessary DCL compilation before the tests and cleanup the DCN output afterwards.

This is an example package.json for an application using jest as test framework but any other framework can be used:

"config": {
  "dcn_root": "test/dcn"
},
"scripts": {
    "pretest": "npx --package=@sap/ams-dev compile-dcl -d test/dcl -o $npm_package_config_dcn_root",
    "jest": "AMS_DCN_ROOT=$npm_package_config_dcn_root jest", // or any other framework
    "test": "npm run jest",
    "posttest": "rm -rf $npm_package_config_dcn_root"
  }

@sap/ams 2.x

1. Compile the DCL bundle to DCN before running the application
2. Set environment variable AMS_DCN_ROOT to the DCN output root folder
3. Create a data.json file in which you assign policies to mock users
4. Run the application
5. In @sap/ams versions >= 1.17, when creating a PolicyDecisionPoint without the new constructor argument for passing an explicit bundle loader, it will automatically load the bundle located at AMS_DCN_ROOT when its value has been set

Inside the data.json file you can mock policy assignments to users based on the SAP Identity Service app_tid (tenant) and scim_id from the user's (mocked) token.

{
    "principal2policies": {
        "tenant1": {
            "user1": [
              "sales.readAllSalesOrders"
            ],
            "user2": [
              "sales.readAllSalesOrders",
              "sales.writeAllSalesOrders"
            ]
        },
        "tenant2": {
            "user1": [
              "sales.readAllSalesOrders",
              "sales.writeAllSalesOrders"
            ]
        }
    }
}

In your package.json, you could set-up the pretest and posttest lifecycle scripts to perform the necessary DCL compilation before the tests and cleanup the DCN output afterwards. If you use a data.json for mock policy assignments, copy it to the DCN root folder after compilation. Make sure to run the tests with the correct AMS_DCN_ROOT.

This is an example package.json for an application using jest as test framework but any other framework can be used:

"config": {
  "dcn_root": "test/dcn"
},
"scripts": {
    "compile-dcl": "npx --package=@sap/ams-dev compile-dcl -d test/dcl -o $npm_package_config_dcn_root && cp test/dcl/data.json $npm_package_config_dcn_root/data.json",
    "pretest": "npm run compile-dcl",
    "jest": "AMS_DCN_ROOT=$npm_package_config_dcn_root jest", // or any other framework
    "test": "npm run jest",
    "posttest": "rm -rf $npm_package_config_dcn_root"
  }