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<div class="section" id="module-vmware.vapi.security">
<span id="vmware-vapi-security-package"></span><h1>vmware.vapi.security package<a class="headerlink" href="#module-vmware.vapi.security" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<div class="section" id="subpackages">
<h2>Subpackages<a class="headerlink" href="#subpackages" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
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<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="vmware.vapi.security.client.html">vmware.vapi.security.client package</a><ul>
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<h2>Submodules<a class="headerlink" href="#submodules" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
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<div class="section" id="module-vmware.vapi.security.session">
<span id="vmware-vapi-security-session-module"></span><h2>vmware.vapi.security.session module<a class="headerlink" href="#module-vmware.vapi.security.session" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Session Security Helper</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="vmware.vapi.security.session.SessionSecurityContextParser">
<em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">vmware.vapi.security.session.</code><code class="descname">SessionSecurityContextParser</code><a class="headerlink" href="#vmware.vapi.security.session.SessionSecurityContextParser" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Bases: <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">vmware.vapi.security.rest.SecurityContextParser</span></code></p>
<p>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.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="vmware.vapi.security.session.SessionSecurityContextParser.build">
<code class="descname">build</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>request</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#vmware.vapi.security.session.SessionSecurityContextParser.build" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Build the security context if the request has the header
that contains the session identifier or a cookie that has
the session identifier.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><strong>request</strong> (<code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">werkzeug.wrappers.Request</span></code>) Request object</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference internal" href="vmware.vapi.html#vmware.vapi.core.SecurityContext" title="vmware.vapi.core.SecurityContext"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">vmware.vapi.core.SecurityContext</span></code></a> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body">Security context object</td>
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</tbody>
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</dd></dl>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="vmware.vapi.security.session.create_session_security_context">
<code class="descclassname">vmware.vapi.security.session.</code><code class="descname">create_session_security_context</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>session_id</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#vmware.vapi.security.session.create_session_security_context" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Create a security context for Session Id based authentication
scheme</p>
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<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><strong>session_id</strong> (<code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code>) Session ID</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference internal" href="vmware.vapi.html#vmware.vapi.core.SecurityContext" title="vmware.vapi.core.SecurityContext"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">vmware.vapi.core.SecurityContext</span></code></a></td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body">Newly created security context</td>
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<div class="section" id="module-vmware.vapi.security.sso">
<span id="vmware-vapi-security-sso-module"></span><h2>vmware.vapi.security.sso module<a class="headerlink" href="#module-vmware.vapi.security.sso" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>SSO Security Helper</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="vmware.vapi.security.sso.JSONCanonicalEncoder">
<em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">vmware.vapi.security.sso.</code><code class="descname">JSONCanonicalEncoder</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>skipkeys=False</em>, <em>ensure_ascii=True</em>, <em>check_circular=True</em>, <em>allow_nan=True</em>, <em>sort_keys=False</em>, <em>indent=None</em>, <em>separators=None</em>, <em>default=None</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#vmware.vapi.security.sso.JSONCanonicalEncoder" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Bases: <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">json.encoder.JSONEncoder</span></code></p>
<p>Custom JSON Encoder class to canonicalize dictionary
and list objects</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="vmware.vapi.security.sso.JSONCanonicalEncoder.encode">
<code class="descname">encode</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>o</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#vmware.vapi.security.sso.JSONCanonicalEncoder.encode" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Encode a given python object</p>
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<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><strong>o</strong> (<code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">object</span></code>) Python object</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body">JSON string in canonicalized form</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
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</dd></dl>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="vmware.vapi.security.sso.JSONCanonicalizer">
<em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">vmware.vapi.security.sso.</code><code class="descname">JSONCanonicalizer</code><a class="headerlink" href="#vmware.vapi.security.sso.JSONCanonicalizer" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Bases: <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">object</span></code></p>
<p>This class is responsible for transforming JSON messages into their
canonical representation.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>The canonical form is defined by the following rules:</dt>
<dd><ol class="first last arabic simple">
<li>Non-significant(1) whitespace characters MUST NOT be used</li>
<li>Non-significant(1) line endings MUST NOT be used</li>
<li>Entries (set of name/value pairs) in JSON objects MUST be sorted
lexicographically(2) by their names based on UCS codepoint values</li>
<li>Arrays MUST preserve their initial ordering</li>
</ol>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>Link to the IEFT proposal:
<a class="reference external" href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-staykov-hu-json-canonical-form/">https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-staykov-hu-json-canonical-form/</a></p>
<dl class="staticmethod">
<dt id="vmware.vapi.security.sso.JSONCanonicalizer.canonicalize">
<em class="property">static </em><code class="descname">canonicalize</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#vmware.vapi.security.sso.JSONCanonicalizer.canonicalize" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Canonicalize the input message</p>
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</tr>
<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body">Canonicalized message</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="staticmethod">
<dt id="vmware.vapi.security.sso.JSONCanonicalizer.canonicalize_py_obj">
<em class="property">static </em><code class="descname">canonicalize_py_obj</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#vmware.vapi.security.sso.JSONCanonicalizer.canonicalize_py_obj" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Canonicalize the input python object</p>
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<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><strong>input_message</strong> (<code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">object</span></code>) Input python object</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body">Canonicalized message</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</dd></dl>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="vmware.vapi.security.sso.JSONSSOSigner">
<em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">vmware.vapi.security.sso.</code><code class="descname">JSONSSOSigner</code><a class="headerlink" href="#vmware.vapi.security.sso.JSONSSOSigner" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Bases: <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">vmware.vapi.protocol.common.lib.RequestProcessor</span></code></p>
<p>This class is used for signing JSON request messages</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="vmware.vapi.security.sso.JSONSSOSigner.process">
<code class="descname">process</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>input_message</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#vmware.vapi.security.sso.JSONSSOSigner.process" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Sign the input JSON request message.</p>
<p>The message is signed using users private key. The digest and saml
token is then added to the security context block of the execution
context. A timestamp is also added to guard against replay attacks</p>
<p>Sample input security context:
{</p>
<blockquote>
<div>schemeId: SAML_TOKEN,
privateKey: &lt;PRIVATE_KEY&gt;,
samlToken: &lt;SAML_TOKEN&gt;,
signatureAlgorithm: &lt;ALGORITHM&gt;,</div></blockquote>
<p>}</p>
<p>Security context block before signing:
{</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>schemeId: SAML_TOKEN,
signatureAlgorithm: &lt;ALGORITHM&gt;,
timestamp: {</p>
<blockquote>
<div>created: 2012-10-26T12:24:18.941Z,
expires: 2012-10-26T12:44:18.941Z,</div></blockquote>
<p>}</p>
</div></blockquote>
<p>}</p>
<p>Security context block after signing:
{</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>schemeId: SAML_TOKEN,
signatureAlgorithm: &lt;ALGORITHM&gt;,
signature: {</p>
<blockquote>
<div>samlToken: &lt;SAML_TOKEN&gt;,
value: &lt;DIGEST&gt;</div></blockquote>
<p>}
timestamp: {</p>
<blockquote>
<div>created: 2012-10-26T12:24:18.941Z,
expires: 2012-10-26T12:44:18.941Z,</div></blockquote>
<p>}</p>
</div></blockquote>
<p>}</p>
</dd></dl>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="vmware.vapi.security.sso.JSONSSOVerifier">
<em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">vmware.vapi.security.sso.</code><code class="descname">JSONSSOVerifier</code><a class="headerlink" href="#vmware.vapi.security.sso.JSONSSOVerifier" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Bases: <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">vmware.vapi.protocol.common.lib.RequestProcessor</span></code></p>
<p>This class is used to verify the authenticity of the request
message by verifying the digest present in the security context
block.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="vmware.vapi.security.sso.JSONSSOVerifier.process">
<code class="descname">process</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>input_message</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#vmware.vapi.security.sso.JSONSSOVerifier.process" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Verify the input JSON message.</p>
<p>For verification, we need 4 things:</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li>algorithm: extracted from security context</li>
</ol>
<p>2. certificate: public key of the principal embedded in the
SAML token is used
3. digest: value field from signature block
4. canonical msg: signature block is removed from the request
and the remaining part is canonicalized</p>
<p>Sample input security context:
{</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>schemeId: SAML_TOKEN,
signatureAlgorithm: &lt;ALGORITHM&gt;,
signature: {</p>
<blockquote>
<div>samlToken: &lt;SAML_TOKEN&gt;,
value: &lt;DIGEST&gt;</div></blockquote>
<p>}
timestamp: {</p>
<blockquote>
<div>created: 2012-10-26T12:24:18.941Z,
expires: 2012-10-26T12:44:18.941Z,</div></blockquote>
<p>}</p>
</div></blockquote>
<p>}</p>
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<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><strong>input_message</strong> (<code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code>) Input JSON request message</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body">JSON request message after signature verification</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</dd></dl>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="vmware.vapi.security.sso.create_saml_bearer_security_context">
<code class="descclassname">vmware.vapi.security.sso.</code><code class="descname">create_saml_bearer_security_context</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>token</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#vmware.vapi.security.sso.create_saml_bearer_security_context" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Create a security context for SAML bearer token based
authentication scheme</p>
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</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="vmware.vapi.security.sso.create_saml_security_context">
<code class="descclassname">vmware.vapi.security.sso.</code><code class="descname">create_saml_security_context</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>token</em>, <em>private_key</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#vmware.vapi.security.sso.create_saml_security_context" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Create a security context for SAML token based
authentication scheme</p>
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<li><strong>token</strong> (<code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code>) SAML Token</li>
<li><strong>private_key</strong> (<code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code>) Absolute file path of the private key of the user</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first"><a class="reference internal" href="vmware.vapi.html#vmware.vapi.core.SecurityContext" title="vmware.vapi.core.SecurityContext"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">vmware.vapi.core.SecurityContext</span></code></a></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first last">Newly created security context</p>
</td>
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</tbody>
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</dd></dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="module-vmware.vapi.security.user_password">
<span id="vmware-vapi-security-user-password-module"></span><h2>vmware.vapi.security.user_password module<a class="headerlink" href="#module-vmware.vapi.security.user_password" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>User password Security Helper</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="vmware.vapi.security.user_password.UserPasswordSecurityContextParser">
<em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">vmware.vapi.security.user_password.</code><code class="descname">UserPasswordSecurityContextParser</code><a class="headerlink" href="#vmware.vapi.security.user_password.UserPasswordSecurityContextParser" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Bases: <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">vmware.vapi.security.rest.SecurityContextParser</span></code></p>
<p>Security context parser used by the REST presentation layer
that builds a security context if the REST request has
username/password credentials in the HTTP header.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="vmware.vapi.security.user_password.UserPasswordSecurityContextParser.build">
<code class="descname">build</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>request</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#vmware.vapi.security.user_password.UserPasswordSecurityContextParser.build" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Build the security context if the request has authorization
header that contains base64 encoded string of username/password.</p>
<p>If the request authorization header doesnt have the username/password,
this method returns None.</p>
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<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><strong>request</strong> (<code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">werkzeug.wrappers.Request</span></code>) Request object</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference internal" href="vmware.vapi.html#vmware.vapi.core.SecurityContext" title="vmware.vapi.core.SecurityContext"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">vmware.vapi.core.SecurityContext</span></code></a> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></td>
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<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body">Security context object</td>
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</dd></dl>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="vmware.vapi.security.user_password.create_user_password_security_context">
<code class="descclassname">vmware.vapi.security.user_password.</code><code class="descname">create_user_password_security_context</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>user_name</em>, <em>password</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#vmware.vapi.security.user_password.create_user_password_security_context" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Create a security context for Username-Password based authentication
scheme</p>
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<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first simple">
<li><strong>user_name</strong> (<code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code>) Name of the user</li>
<li><strong>password</strong> (<code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code>) Password of the user</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first"><a class="reference internal" href="vmware.vapi.html#vmware.vapi.core.SecurityContext" title="vmware.vapi.core.SecurityContext"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">vmware.vapi.core.SecurityContext</span></code></a></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first last">Newly created security context</p>
</td>
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