Policy Enforcement Point API

The Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) Service is one of the core components of the Consent2Share(C2S) application. The PEP delegates the access decision to the Context Handler API, and it utilizes the Document Segmentation Service (DSS) for segmenting CCD documents according to a patient's granular consent. PEP gives the same response for both "No applicable consents" and "No documents found" cases to avoid exposing the existence of a patient's consent.

Build

Prerequisites

• Oracle Java JDK 8 with Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy
• Docker Engine (for building a Docker image from the project)

Commands

This is a Maven project and requires Apache Maven 3.3.3 or greater to build it. It is recommended to use the Maven Wrapper scripts provided with this project. Maven Wrapper requires an internet connection to download Maven and project dependencies for the very first build.

To build the project, navigate to the folder that contains pom.xml file using the terminal/command line.

• To build a JAR:
  • For Windows, run mvnw.cmd clean install
  • For *nix systems, run mvnw clean install
• To build a Docker Image (this will create an image with bhitsdev/pep-api:latest tag):
  • For Windows, run mvnw.cmd clean package docker:build
  • For *nix systems, run mvnw clean package docker:build

Run

Commands

This is a Spring Boot project and serves the API via an embedded Tomcat instance, therefore there is no need for a separate application server to run this service.

• Run as a JAR file: java -jar pep-api-x.x.x-SNAPSHOT.jar <additional program arguments>
• Run as a Docker Container: docker run -d bhitsdev/pep-api:latest <additional program arguments>

NOTE: In order for this API to fully function as a microservice in C2S Application, it is also required to setup the dependency microservices and support level infrastructure. Please refer to the C2S Deployment Guide for instructions to setup the C2S infrastructure.

Configure

This API utilizes Configuration Server which is based on Spring Cloud Config to manage externalized configuration, which is stored in a Configuration Data Git Repository. We provide a Default Configuration Data Git Repository.

This API can run with the default configuration, which is targeted for a local development environment. Default configuration data is from three places: bootstrap.yml, application.yml, and the data which Configuration Server reads from Configuration Data Git Repository. Both bootstrap.yml and application.yml files are located in the resources folder of this source code.

We recommend overriding the configuration as needed in the Configuration Data Git Repository, which is used by the Configuration Server.

Also, please refer to Spring Cloud Config Documentation to see how the config server works, Spring Boot Externalized Configuration documentation to see how Spring Boot applies the order to load the properties, and Spring Boot Common Properties documentation to see the common properties used by Spring Boot.

Other Ways to Override Configuration

Override a Configuration Using Program Arguments While Running as a JAR:

• java -jar pep-api-x.x.x-SNAPSHOT.jar --server.port=80 --logging.file=/logs/pep-api.log

Override a Configuration Using Program Arguments While Running as a Docker Container:

• docker run -d bhitsdev/pep-api:latest --server.port=80 --logging.file=/logs/pep-api.log

• In a docker-compose.yml, this can be provided as:

version: '2'
services:
...
  pep-api.c2s.com:
    image: "bhitsdev/pep-api:latest"
    command: ["--server.port=80","--logging.file=/logs/pep-api.log"]
...

NOTE: Please note that these additional arguments will be appended to the default ENTRYPOINT specified in the Dockerfile unless the ENTRYPOINT is overridden.

Enable SSL

For simplicity in development and testing environments, SSL is NOT enabled by default configuration. SSL can easily be enabled following the examples below:

Enable SSL While Running as a JAR

• java -jar pep-api-x.x.x-SNAPSHOT.jar --spring.profiles.active=ssl --server.ssl.key-store=/path/to/ssl_keystore.keystore --server.ssl.key-store-password=strongkeystorepassword

Enable SSL While Running as a Docker Container

• docker run -d -v "/path/on/dockerhost/ssl_keystore.keystore:/path/to/ssl_keystore.keystore" bhitsdev/pep-api:latest --spring.profiles.active=ssl --server.ssl.key-store=/path/to/ssl_keystore.keystore --server.ssl.key-store-password=strongkeystorepassword
• In a docker-compose.yml, this can be provided as:

version: '2'
services:
...
  pep-api.c2s.com:
    image: "bhitsdev/pep-api:latest"
    command: ["--spring.profiles.active=ssl","--server.ssl.key-store=/path/to/ssl_keystore.keystore", "--server.ssl.key-store-password=strongkeystorepassword"]
    volumes:
      - /path/on/dockerhost/ssl_keystore.keystore:/path/to/ssl_keystore.keystore
...

NOTE: As seen in the examples above, /path/to/ssl_keystore.keystore is made available to the container via a volume mounted from the Docker host running this container.

Override Java CA Certificates Store In Docker Environment

Java has a default CA Certificates Store that allows it to trust well-known certificate authorities. For development and testing purposes, one might want to trust additional self-signed certificates. In order to override the default Java CA Certificates Store in a Docker container, one can mount a custom cacerts file over the default one in the Docker image as follows: docker run -d -v "/path/on/dockerhost/to/custom/cacerts:/etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts" bhitsdev/pep-api:latest

NOTE: The cacerts references given in the both sides of volume mapping above are files, not directories.

Contact

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please see Consent2Share project site.

Report Issues

Please use GitHub Issues page to report issues.