Sönke Liebau created KAFKA-6561:
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Summary: Change visibility of aclMatch in SimpleAclAuthorizer to
protected to allow overriding in subclasses
Key: KAFKA-6561
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6561
Project: Kafka
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: core
Affects Versions: 1.0.0
Reporter: Sönke Liebau
Assignee: Sönke Liebau
Currently the visibility of the
[aclMatch|https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/core/src/main/scala/kafka/security/auth/SimpleAclAuthorizer.scala#L146]
function in the SimpleAclAuthorizer class is set to private, thus prohibiting
subclasses from overriding this method. I think this was originally done as
this function is not supposed to be part of the public Api of this class, which
makes sense.
However when creating a custom authorizer this would be a very useful method to
override, as it allows to reuse a large amount of boilerplate code around
loading and applying ACLs and simply changing the way that ACLs are matched.
Could we change the visibility of this method to protected, thus still keeping
it out of the public interface but allowing for subclasses to override it?
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