Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Syntax Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

BatchIsAuthorized

Makes a series of decisions about multiple authorization requests for one principal or resource. Each request contains the equivalent content of an IsAuthorized request: principal, action, resource, and context. Either the principal or the resource parameter must be identical across all requests. For example, Verified Permissions won't evaluate a pair of requests where bob views photo1 and alice views photo2. Authorization of bob to view photo1 and photo2, or bob and alice to view photo1, are valid batches.

The request is evaluated against all policies in the specified policy store that match the entities that you declare. The result of the decisions is a series of Allow or Deny responses, along with the IDs of the policies that produced each decision.

The entities of a BatchIsAuthorized API request can contain up to 100 principals and up to 100 resources. The requests of a BatchIsAuthorized API request can contain up to 30 requests.

Note

The BatchIsAuthorized operation doesn't have its own IAM permission. To authorize this operation for AWS principals, include the permission verifiedpermissions:IsAuthorized in their IAM policies.

Request Syntax


{
   "entities": { ... },
   "policyStoreId": "string",
   "requests": [ 
      { 
         "action": { 
            "actionId": "string",
            "actionType": "string"
         },
         "context": { ... },
         "principal": { 
            "entityId": "string",
            "entityType": "string"
         },
         "resource": { 
            "entityId": "string",
            "entityType": "string"
         }
      }
   ]
}

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Note

In the following list, the required parameters are described first.

policyStoreId

Specifies the ID of the policy store. Policies in this policy store will be used to make the authorization decisions for the input.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 200.

Pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9-]*

Required: Yes

requests

An array of up to 30 requests that you want Verified Permissions to evaluate.

Type: Array of BatchIsAuthorizedInputItem objects

Array Members: Minimum number of 1 item.

Required: Yes

entities

Specifies the list of resources and principals and their associated attributes that Verified Permissions can examine when evaluating the policies.

Note

You can include only principal and resource entities in this parameter; you can't include actions. You must specify actions in the schema.

Type: EntitiesDefinition object

Note: This object is a Union. Only one member of this object can be specified or returned.

Required: No

Response Syntax


{
   "results": [ 
      { 
         "decision": "string",
         "determiningPolicies": [ 
            { 
               "policyId": "string"
            }
         ],
         "errors": [ 
            { 
               "errorDescription": "string"
            }
         ],
         "request": { 
            "action": { 
               "actionId": "string",
               "actionType": "string"
            },
            "context": { ... },
            "principal": { 
               "entityId": "string",
               "entityType": "string"
            },
            "resource": { 
               "entityId": "string",
               "entityType": "string"
            }
         }
      }
   ]
}

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

results

A series of Allow or Deny decisions for each request, and the policies that produced them. These results are returned in the order they were requested.

Type: Array of BatchIsAuthorizedOutputItem objects

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

AccessDeniedException

You don't have sufficient access to perform this action.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InternalServerException

The request failed because of an internal error. Try your request again later

HTTP Status Code: 500

ResourceNotFoundException

The request failed because it references a resource that doesn't exist.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ThrottlingException

The request failed because it exceeded a throttling quota.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ValidationException

The request failed because one or more input parameters don't satisfy their constraint requirements. The output is provided as a list of fields and a reason for each field that isn't valid.

The possible reasons include the following:

UnrecognizedEntityType

The policy includes an entity type that isn't found in the schema.
UnrecognizedActionId

The policy includes an action id that isn't found in the schema.
InvalidActionApplication

The policy includes an action that, according to the schema, doesn't support the specified principal and resource.
UnexpectedType

The policy included an operand that isn't a valid type for the specified operation.
IncompatibleTypes

The types of elements included in a set, or the types of expressions used in an if...then...else clause aren't compatible in this context.
MissingAttribute

The policy attempts to access a record or entity attribute that isn't specified in the schema. Test for the existence of the attribute first before attempting to access its value. For more information, see the has (presence of attribute test) operator in the Cedar Policy Language Guide.
UnsafeOptionalAttributeAccess

The policy attempts to access a record or entity attribute that is optional and isn't guaranteed to be present. Test for the existence of the attribute first before attempting to access its value. For more information, see the has (presence of attribute test) operator in the Cedar Policy Language Guide.
ImpossiblePolicy

Cedar has determined that a policy condition always evaluates to false. If the policy is always false, it can never apply to any query, and so it can never affect an authorization decision.
WrongNumberArguments

The policy references an extension type with the wrong number of arguments.
FunctionArgumentValidationError

Cedar couldn't parse the argument passed to an extension type. For example, a string that is to be parsed as an IPv4 address can contain only digits and the period character.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example requests for multiple principals and actions with one resource

The following example requests two authorization decisions for two principals of type User named Alice and Annalisa. Alice wants to perform the ViewPhoto operation on a resource of type Photo named VacationPhoto94.jpg. The photo is in Alice's account. Annalisa wants to delete VacationPhoto94.jpg.

The response shows that Alice's request was allowed by one policy and Annalisa's request was denied because the photo is in someone else's account.

Sample Request


POST HTTP/1.1
Host: verifiedpermissions.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
X-Amz-Date: 20230613T200059Z
Accept-Encoding: identity
X-Amz-Target: VerifiedPermissions.BatchIsAuthorized
User-Agent: <UserAgentString>
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=<Credential>, SignedHeaders=<Headers>, Signature=<Signature>
Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes>

{
   "requests": [
      {
         "principal": {
            "entityType": "PhotoFlash::User",
            "entityId": "Alice"
         },
         "action": {
            "actionType": "PhotoFlash::Action",
            "actionId": "ViewPhoto"
         },
         "resource": {
            "entityType": "PhotoFlash::Photo",
            "entityId": "VacationPhoto94.jpg"
         }
      },
      {
         "principal": {
            "entityType": "PhotoFlash::User",
            "entityId": "Annalisa"
         },
         "action": {
            "actionType": "PhotoFlash::Action",
            "actionId": "DeletePhoto"
         },
         "resource": {
            "entityType": "PhotoFlash::Photo",
            "entityId": "VacationPhoto94.jpg"
         }
      }
   ],
   "entities": {
      "entityList": [
         {
            "identifier": {
               "entityType": "PhotoFlash::User",
               "entityId": "Alice"
            },
            "attributes": {
               "Account": {
                  "entityIdentifier": {
                     "entityType": "PhotoFlash::Account",
                     "entityId": "1234"
                  }
               },
               "Email": {
                  "string": ""
               }
            },
            "parents": []
         },
         {
            "identifier": {
               "entityType": "PhotoFlash::User",
               "entityId": "Annalisa"
            },
            "attributes": {
               "Account": {
                  "entityIdentifier": {
                     "entityType": "PhotoFlash::Account",
                     "entityId": "5678"
                  }
               },
               "Email": {
                  "string": ""
               }
            },
            "parents": []
         },
         {
            "identifier": {
               "entityType": "PhotoFlash::Photo",
               "entityId": "VacationPhoto94.jpg"
            },
            "attributes": {
               "IsPrivate": {
                  "boolean": false
               },
               "Name": {
                  "string": ""
               }
            },
            "parents": [
               {
                  "entityType": "PhotoFlash::Account",
                  "entityId": "1234"
               }
            ]
         },
         {
            "identifier": {
               "entityType": "PhotoFlash::Account",
               "entityId": "1234"
            },
            "attributes": {
               "Name": {
                  "string": ""
               }
            },
            "parents": []
         }
      ]
   },
   "policyStoreId": "PSEXAMPLEabcdefg111111"
}

Sample Response


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:00:59 GMT
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.0
Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes>
vary: origin
vary: access-control-request-method
vary: access-control-request-headers
x-amzn-requestid: a1b2c3d4-e5f6-a1b2-c3d4-EXAMPLE11111
Connection: keep-alive

{
   "results": [
      {
         "request": {
            "principal": {
               "entityType": "PhotoFlash::User",
               "entityId": "alice"
            },
            "action": {
               "actionType": "PhotoFlash::Action",
               "actionId": "ViewPhoto"
            },
            "resource": {
               "entityType": "PhotoFlash::Photo",
               "entityId": "VacationPhoto94.jpg"
            }
         },
         "decision": "ALLOW",
         "determiningPolicies": [
            {
               "policyId": "SPEXAMPLEabcdefg111111"
            }
         ],
         "errors": []
      },
      {
         "request": {
            "principal": {
               "entityType": "PhotoFlash::User",
               "entityId": "annalisa"
            },
            "action": {
               "actionType": "PhotoFlash::Action",
               "actionId": "DeletePhoto"
            },
            "resource": {
               "entityType": "PhotoFlash::Photo",
               "entityId": "VacationPhoto94.jpg"
            }
         },
         "decision": "DENY",
         "determiningPolicies": [],
         "errors": []
      }
   ]
}