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Support Externalized Method Security Configuration

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Description

There are times that users cannot add annotations to objects or APIs that they want to secure. For example, consider if an team external provides a PersonService and team internal wants to add security to it. At the moment, the security must be done by adding intercept-methods style configuration.

A similar situation occurs when using Collections of objects. In this case, Spring Security provides custom Filtering. This could potentially be used to replace the @PreFilter and @PostFilter support.

I think that these situations are very similar and can be combined into an approach similar to Jackson's MixIn Approach.

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Research direction

Start with the linked intercept-methods documentation and compare the proposal with Jackson's MixIn approach. The issue also mentions collection filtering as a possible replacement for @PreFilter and @PostFilter. No files or tests are named, and completion would require an agreed design for externalized method security configuration.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
java, spring
Domain
authorization, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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