Environment Time PIP

This PIP populates a few time-related attributes within the environment portion of the request.

Tip

Using this PIP effective disables the response caching in a PEP Server as will make every request different.

Configuration

1. Create a new INI section for you PIP (you may choose any valid INI section name. e.g. TIME_PIP)
2. To PIP INI section add the parserClass property with the value org.glite.authz.pep.pip.provider.EnvironmentTimePIPIniConfigurationParser
3. Add the name of the created PIP INI section to the list of PIPs in the SERVICE section

Prerequisite Request Attributes

None.

Populate Effective Request Attributes

This PIP will populate the following attributes within the environment portion of the request.

• The Current Time
  • type: environment
  • id: urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:environment:current-time
  • data type: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#time
  • issuer: any
  • multiple values allowed: no
  • description: The time, in the UTC timezone, the request was issued
• The Current Date
  • type: environment
  • id: urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:environment:current-date
  • data type: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date
  • issuer: any
  • multiple values allowed: no
  • description: The date, in the UTC timezone, the request was issued
• The Current Date and Time
  • type: environment
  • id: urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:environment:current-dateTime
  • data type: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
  • issuer: any
  • multiple values allowed: no
  • description: The date and time, in the UTC timezone, the request was issued

Example Configuration

The following example shows a PEP Server configuration with the Environment Time PIP enabled:

[SERVICE]
entityId = https://example.org/pep
hostname = example.org
pips = TIME_PIP

[PDP]
pdps = http://localhost:8152/authz

[TIME_PIP]
parserClass = org.glite.authz.pep.pip.provider.EnvironmentTimePIPIniConfigurationParser