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Goal

Implement the v1 Generic REST Permission Provider as a concrete PermissionProvider backed by the HTTPS transport contract defined in ADR 0008.

Related ADRs

ADR 0002, ADR 0003, ADR 0004, ADR 0005, ADR 0006, ADR 0007, ADR 0008.

Scope

  • Add a concrete Generic REST PermissionProvider implementation.
  • Forward the exact technical-caller bearer credential to the remote Provider.
  • Serialize synchronized-user identity using the fixed username / groups request contract.
  • Enforce HTTPS with certificate and hostname verification.
  • Support platform trust roots plus optional additional private CA anchors supplied as PEM certificate bundles.
  • Bound the complete Provider operation by the shorter of the synchronization deadline and configured Provider timeout.
  • Enforce at-most-once transport behavior without retries, redirects, connection pooling, or detached connection-driving work.
  • Validate and bound Provider responses before converting them into the Core desired-state envelope.
  • Resolve hostname endpoints through operation-owned DNS requests without blocking resolver work surviving the Provider operation.

Out of scope

Inbound HTTP, PermissionSync JWT authentication and validation, OAuth scope processing, synchronization orchestration, target routing changes, Target Adapter implementations, runtime configuration loading, application composition, observability integration, and OCI/runtime packaging.

Implementation

The new permissionsync-provider-generic-rest crate implements the existing Core PermissionProvider port.

Its public construction API consists of:

pub struct GenericRestPermissionProviderConfig {
    pub endpoint: String,
    pub operation_timeout: Duration,
    pub additional_trust_anchors_pem: Vec<Vec<u8>>,
}

pub struct GenericRestPermissionProvider;

impl GenericRestPermissionProvider {
    pub fn new(G
        config: GenericRestPermissionProviderConfig,
    ) -> Result<Self, GenericRestPermissionProviderConfigError>;
}

Each additional_trust_anchors_pem entry is a PEM certificate bundle and may contain one or more concatenated X.509 certificates. Configured certificates are added to, rather than replacing, the platform trust roots.

The Provider sends one HTTP/1.1 POST to the configured complete HTTPS endpoint with:

Authorization: Bearer <original technical-caller JWT>
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json
Accept-Encoding:

and the exact request body:

{
  "username": "jdoe",
  "groups": ["/staff", "/staff/engineering"]
}

The technical-caller credential is forwarded unchanged. The client does not parse or validate the JWT and does not derive target semantics from it; the remote Provider remains responsible for independent resource-server validation and target derivation.

LogicalTarget remains part of the internal Core Provider request but is not serialized onto the REST wire.

Transport

Provider operations use low-level Hyper HTTP/1.1 connections rather than a pooled high-level client.

DNS resolution, TCP connection, TLS negotiation, HTTP handshake, request delivery, response processing, and the Hyper connection driver are all owned by the same bounded Provider future.

Hostname resolution uses the platform DNS configuration and operation-owned Hickory UDP requests. One A and one AAAA query form a single logical resolution, without retransmission or nameserver failover. At most one resulting socket address is selected for the TCP connection.

A usable address from either family succeeds. If neither family produces a usable address, a genuine DNS timeout is classified as deadline exhaustion; other DNS failures remain transport failures.

IP-literal endpoints bypass DNS entirely.

There is no:

  • HTTP request retry or replay;
  • redirect following;
  • connection pooling;
  • Happy Eyeballs or address fallback;
  • ambient proxy handling;
  • transparent response decompression;
  • detached HTTP or DNS worker associated with the Provider operation.

Response contract

Only a final:

200 OK

is accepted as successful Provider resolution.

Every other status, including other successful HTTP statuses such as 204, is a Provider failure.

Successful responses must use application/json with UTF-8-compatible charset semantics and an unencoded representation.

The response body is bounded by an absolute product-owned ceiling of:

1 MiB / 1,048,576 bytes

Content-Length is checked before buffering when available, and streamed body bytes are independently counted so an absent or inaccurate declaration cannot bypass the limit.

The ceiling is intentionally conservative: desired-state documents are expected to be materially smaller while the limit bounds per-request buffering, parser work, memory amplification, and the impact of defective or malicious Provider responses.

The successful JSON envelope is strictly:

{
  "version": <u64>,
  "payload": <any valid JSON value>
}

Unknown or duplicate members, invalid versions, malformed JSON, trailing JSON, invalid UTF-8, invalid media types, content codings, and oversized bodies fail Provider resolution.

The payload remains opaque to the Provider client and is passed to Core without application-specific interpretation.

Dependencies

None.

Review guide

Focus on:

  • exact bearer-token forwarding and sensitive header handling;
  • absence of LogicalTarget from the wire contract;
  • operation-owned DNS and HTTP connection lifetimes;
  • at-most-once request behavior;
  • HTTPS certificate and hostname verification;
  • PEM private CA trust support;
  • strict response metadata and envelope validation;
  • the 1 MiB response-body safety ceiling;
  • safe error redaction;
  • preservation of Core and routing boundaries.

Architecture invariants

The synchronized end user and technical caller remain distinct identities.

The remote Permission Provider independently validates the forwarded JWT as its own resource server and derives its target from that credential.

PermissionSync retains its independently selected LogicalTarget for internal routing and orchestration.

The Generic REST Provider does not introduce a universal permission model: payload remains adapter-specific opaque desired state.

Core remains transport- and runtime-neutral.

Tests

The implementation includes deterministic, hermetic coverage for:

  • exact outbound method, path, Host header, headers, bearer and JSON body;
  • identity value, group-order and duplicate preservation;
  • HTTPS endpoint validation;
  • single private CA PEM trust;
  • concatenated multi-certificate PEM bundles;
  • malformed and no-certificate PEM rejection;
  • untrusted CA rejection and hostname verification;
  • IP-literal and hostname DNS behavior;
  • DNS single-attempt, drop, timeout, and error-classification behavior;
  • successful and failed exchange no-retry behavior;
  • keep-alive connection lifecycle and connection-driver ownership;
  • Provider operation timeout and Core-deadline precedence;
  • pre-I/O and mid-operation cancellation;
  • 200-only success semantics including explicit remote 204 rejection;
  • strict media type and charset handling;
  • content-coding rejection;
  • invalid UTF-8;
  • declared and streamed response-size enforcement;
  • exact response-size boundary behavior;
  • early disconnect handling when oversized streamed responses are rejected;
  • strict desired-state envelope parsing;
  • all valid payload JSON shapes and u64 version boundaries;
  • non-200 response-body and diagnostic-header non-consumption/redaction;
  • public error redaction;
  • Authorization header sensitivity.

All transport tests use local ephemeral endpoints and deterministic in-memory test TLS material.

Security considerations

The Authorization header is marked sensitive before entering Hyper.

Bearer credentials, synchronized identities, Provider payloads, complete endpoint details, response bodies, PEM trust material, and downstream diagnostics are not retained in Provider error sources.

TLS certificate and hostname verification cannot be disabled through the public Provider API.

System trust roots remain enabled and deployments may add private CA roots through PEM certificate bundles without replacing them.

Provider response bodies are bounded before full buffering.

No Provider request is retried or replayed after a transport failure.

Follow-ups

Later work will connect the Provider to synchronization orchestration and resolved runtime configuration, followed by inbound authentication/HTTP handling and concrete Target Adapter integration.

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This PR adds and registers an HTTPS Generic REST Permission Provider. It defines configuration and error types, validates wire data, performs bounded DNS and HTTPS operations, and adds hermetic behavioral tests.

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Generic REST Permission Provider

Layer / File(s) Summary
Crate registration and public contracts
Cargo.toml, README.md, crates/permissionsync-provider-generic-rest/Cargo.toml, crates/permissionsync-provider-generic-rest/src/lib.rs, crates/permissionsync-provider-generic-rest/src/error.rs
The workspace registers the crate. The crate defines provider configuration, construction, PermissionProvider integration, and fixed non-diagnostic errors.
Request and response wire protocol
crates/permissionsync-provider-generic-rest/src/wire.rs
The provider serializes identity data, validates response headers and declared size, and parses desired-state envelopes.
Bounded HTTPS resolution transport
crates/permissionsync-provider-generic-rest/src/client.rs
The client validates HTTPS endpoints, configures TLS, performs single-attempt DNS and HTTPS operations, forwards bearer credentials, enforces cancellation and deadlines, and limits response bodies to 1 MiB.
Public API and transport behavior validation
crates/permissionsync-provider-generic-rest/tests/generic_rest_provider.rs
Hermetic tests cover configuration, deadlines, cancellation, error redaction, TLS, request construction, response validation, connection lifecycle, and retry behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant GenericRestPermissionProvider
  participant DNS
  participant RemoteProvider
  Caller->>GenericRestPermissionProvider: resolve(request)
  GenericRestPermissionProvider->>DNS: resolve one A and one AAAA query
  DNS-->>GenericRestPermissionProvider: return selected address
  GenericRestPermissionProvider->>RemoteProvider: establish TLS and send JSON POST
  RemoteProvider-->>GenericRestPermissionProvider: return bounded desired-state response
  GenericRestPermissionProvider-->>Caller: return envelope or mapped error
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Implements a generic REST permission provider backed by HTTPS transport with bearer credential forwarding, strict response validation, operation-owned DNS and HTTP connections, and a 1 MiB response-body ceiling. No issues found.

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