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For certain usecases where caching of security policies may not be acceptable even at the cost of a significant performance hit, a configuration knob should be provided to turn caching off. By default though, caching will be enabled.

Authorizing Service Requests

With Secure Impersonation - Security 3.5, user services will be started as the logged in user. However, service endpoints for accessing datasets can be called by any user. Hence, it is necessary to make sure that any dataset accesses via such endpoints is authorized. One way of doing this would be to add a handler hook to the NettyHttpService that runs the service, which in its preCall method will have an authorization check.

Authorizing list operations

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